Nesting: Birds and Writers

Every year the robins scope out our porch

seeking shelter for their nest

and every year 

they slop twigs and straw and leaves

every which way

and usually the mess-nest 

falls

three or four or five times

but they pick all the mess back up

and slop it up against the pillar

which isn't nearly wide enough

for a secure nest

but they are stubborn

and keep at it

and slop some mud in it

to cement it to the

white pillar

and you know I'm going to

compare

this to writing a book, right?

. . .the way I toss this and that 

onto the page

hoping it sticks

and sometimes it doesn't

and it makes a mess

but I am stubborn

and I keep at it

cementing those words

to the

white page.

ciao, bellas . . .

xx