Small Watchfulness

Written for dVerse Poets Quadrille Monday –
“Bird is the Word”. Our host, De Jackson,
has offered up the word “bird”.
Here is my quadrille.

Barely heavier than a thought,
the chickadee lands on a branch
and considers the cold morning
with black-capped certainty.

It does not wonder about winter.
It simply tucks the seed away
somewhere it will remember,
or perhaps
somewhere it will not…
and flies off.

NAR©2026
44 Words

This is “Chickadee” by Chuck Pyle

Quadrille #243: Bird is the Word 

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