Birds Bathing A friend reports watching “a conflagration of birds feasting, fighting and bathing in their personal lake”. And I’m eyeing my blackbirds, fussy frenzied delinquents flinging food scraps from the compost heap, a speckle of sparrows pecking seeds and my ginger and white long-haired puss sleeping under the scruffy hedge. All are oblivious of a continuation of clouds and showery spasms of rain slowly descending. Brian Turner Advent I can’t watch the sun going down as reds and greens and yellows merge because feelings informal and formal crowd in and remind me of…
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