Taps
Like a thick-fingered
Seattle carpenter
serenading a
drowsy neighborhood
by pounding
ten-penny nails
into fresh hewn lumber,
the persistent
woodpecker
hammers its
steel girded beak
into standing timber
so its
pecklets
also might eat.

Taps
Like a thick-fingered
Seattle carpenter
serenading a
drowsy neighborhood
by pounding
ten-penny nails
into fresh hewn lumber,
the persistent
woodpecker
hammers its
steel girded beak
into standing timber
so its
pecklets
also might eat.