A poem for springtime, about birdwatching

This is a piece that I created during a 10-week poetry-writing workshop at DePaul University, under the direction of Richard Jones. Learning about birds has been one of the things keeping me sane for the past six months. I’m no expert, but I can differentiate between robins and cardinals, house sparrows and red-winged blackbirds—you know, all the common…