5/28/2023

Paint-By-Numbers (Memory)
 
1 cardinal in the alley behind the adobe house on Coal Avenue
2 mockingbirds again nesting in the thorn tree outside a yoga studio
3 starlings daring to stand in newly-turned Albuquerque garden dirt
8 orange-crowned kinglets flick at eye level, deep in Alamo Canyon
13 cedar waxwings on Chinaberry branches above an Arizona canal
 
[RK, 5/28/23]

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