Poetry Friday: December Notes

It's the first day of December, Poetry Friday friends. This week's host is Mary Lee Hahn at A Year of Reading. Grab a cup of hot cocoa and head over to her blog, where you'll find some poetry to warm you up.I went searching for a December poem and came upon this beauty by Nancy McCleery. Last winter, we installed a small Lucite bird feeder on our kitchen window. Visitors include a cardinal family, chickadees, titmice, wrens, and (most fascinating to our dog, Sam) a squirrel. The images in this poem are striking, yet capture the quietness we can experience during a cold winter.December NotesBy Nancy McCleeryThe backyard is one white sheetWhere we read in the bird tracksThe songs we hear. DelicateSparrow, heavier cardinal,Filigree threads of chickadee.And wing patterns where one flewLow, then up an away, goneTo the woods but calling outClearly its bright epigrams.Read the rest at My Minnesota Notes.