Unsold Poems for the April 4, 2023 Poetry Fishbowl

The following poems from the April 4, 2023 Poetry Fishbowl are currently available. Poems may be sponsored via PayPal -- there's a permanent donation button on my Dreamwidth profile page -- or you can write to me and discuss other methods. There are still verses left in the linkback poems "Let the Children Lead Us," "Pumpkin Spice Prosperity," "Delight in Another," "A Sense of Weather Changes," "Ouroboros Insects," "The Loving Embrace of Night," "Generations of Cooks Past," "Begin to Understand Ourselves," "Homefree and Clear, " "One Bite at a Time," "Stars and Diamonds," "Mishpocha," "There's an Art to It," "The Glass Cat," "Changing Your Nature," and "Besa."

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Birdfeeding

Today is mostly cloudy and cool, with occasional sunbeams.

I fed the birds. There's no good place left to hang the upside-down suet cage, so I just brought it in for the season.

I've seen a flock of sparrows, two mourning doves, a brown thrasher, a male house finch, and a fox squirrel.

I started working on the orchard. I filled a trolley with small sticks and hauled several large branches to the ritual meadow, but there is much work left to be done.

EDIT 4/23/23 -- We cleared a big pile of sticks from the strip between the house and the south lot. My partner Doug is out mowing now.

EDIT 4/23/23 -- We walked around the mowed area, including part of the orchard and a path all the way through the forest yard between the house and the street.

I sprayed weeds along the street and in the prairie garden.

EDIT 4/23/23 -- I trimmed brush and cut around the lily-of-the-valley growing along the north side of the house.

I saw a male cardinal in the fly-through feeder and a blue jay in the forest garden.

EDIT 4/23/23 -- I hauled several large branches, and moved two piles of firewood, from the north side of the house to the ritual meadow.

As it is now dark, I am done for the night.

Poem: "I Do What I Do Because I Want To"

This poem is spillover from the March 7, 2023 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired and sponsored by Anthony Barrette. It also fills the "Paint" square in my 3-1-23 card for the March Is... Bingo fest. This poem belongs to the Shiv thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.

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Character notes for "I Do What I Do Because I Want To"

Here are the character notes for "I Do What I Do Because I Want To."

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