7. I have a little bluebird house hung right where I can see it
From the spot where I sit on the screened-in porch.
There are a pair who use it every Spring to make more bluebirds.
I don't know how they know it is a bluebird house, but they do.
And they know that it is their own cottage.
They are very brave because I also tend to gather stray cats.
The day I watched a sweet fledgeling puff of blue
Not even make it to the ground on his first outing hurt my heart.
And worse, it hurt their hearts, and the sound of the bluebird of happiness in mourning
Was horrible to take.