Redwings by George Held

These are blackbirds with colorful yellow
and, yes, red shoulders on the male; its mate
is brown. When, on my March way to Sunday
School, they whistled and cried in the marsh:
the first migrants to arrive and build nests…



George Held, an 11-time Pushcart nominee, has poems currently in Jerry Jazz Magazine, Untold Stories, Blue Unicorn, and Neuro Logical (Ireland). This poem featured in Red Eft Review today is among his forty new poems about birds. He writes from NY.