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The Crocus

Audio Recordings, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Birds, Spring / May 13, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Loud crows and bright robins
promise an early spring

But they are of the sky
and can be easily fooled

Only the crocus knows

Spring Came In

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Birds, Flowers, Seasons / May 12, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Spring came in
like a slinky on a stair

Coiling and recoiling
twenty degrees at a leap

The robin looking at the
crocus twice to see if it was real

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The Ignorance of Spring

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Appreciation, Birds, Flowers / April 2, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

This one morning, the only one
there are bluebonnets
and flowers many more
that I feel no need to name
and birdsong from birds the same
that I will not cease
from looking up to look up in a book

Minutia in March

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Birds, Music, Spring / March 31, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Watching
the in and out
of a soft brown throat
on a bud-bare branch
microseconds from the song

A Carolina Wren welcoming the spring

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Blind

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Autumn, Birds, Fall, Hunting, Migration / October 10, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Lying on our backs in shallow graves
we've dug in pre-dawn frozen dirt

Golden straw pulled over us
to not be seen by Canada's geese
stopping for breakfast going to Texas

Waiting less time than it seems
to hear the honking and leap up
to exact our tithes on the grain
we and the gods all year provided

Blind Rooster

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life, String Too Short To Save / tagged Aging, Birds, Fear, Sight / September 5, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Afraid of missing daybreak
crows all night

Georgian Bay Morning

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Travel / tagged Art & Artists, Birds / August 24, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Sometimes an artist
has to look up from her art
geese may be flying

The Useless Lake

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cows, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Birds / August 8, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

At the edge of our ranch
lay a large and useless lake

True, it was pretty enough
when the sun struck it just right

And the alkali
didn’t seem to be a problem
for the seeming millions
of cormorants, gulls and pelicans
who embraced it for their home

There were even men
living along the south shore
who may have been happy
mining its salt for money

What I meant was
it was water
that the cows couldn’t drink

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What Turns Up

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Birds / August 7, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In the long field by the lake
turning the earth is turning up worms

Looking over your shoulder
you'd swear you were birthing gulls

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The Story of Storks

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Birds, Birth / August 6, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The story of storks bringing babies
was a hard sell on the ranch

Along with watching others arrive in other ways
the storybook pictures of tile roofs and tall chimneys
didn't look anything much like Saskatchewan

And why such an improbable bird
carrying little nipper in a knotted cotton nappie
(although some foresight might be granted there)

When readily available about a mile away
was a lake full of pelicans better suited to the task

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You've certainly captured these crazy times with finesse and grace, my Friend!

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