"Dialectics of Birdwatching"

Scanning for bugs, two blackbirds sit next to each other on a telephone wire when a crow lands on the pole. The distant blackbird moves further away to the right and the other respectively nearer. The crow flies off to the left, the closer blackbird to the right, followed by the last.

A poem for Arne Larsson, the first person to receive a pacemaker: a haiku for George Herbert

perching on the bow
the pulpit casts no shadow
stays in his fake heart