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Nature in the City

Granny watches nature in the city
from her window after the nurse
takes her tray away.
 
She likes to watch the bird feeder
grandson Ahmad hung for cardinals,
chickadees and jays.
 
It’s an everyday buffet, she says,
until a squirrel leaps from a tree
and lands on the feeder for
 
a balanced snack and then
a cat scrambles over the fence
hungry for squirrel but finds
 
the squirrel’s back in the tree.
So the cat decides to wait
behind an ancient oak
 
for the birds to come back
once they see the squirrel’s
no longer on the feeder.
 
Granny says nature in the city
is sometimes like her childhood home
now in chaos in the Middle East.
 
 
Donal Mahoney

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