which birds are out? you can count on
your favorite ones, usually some finches
here—-they arrive

all-colored by the thicket
from other people’s timbered
properties & short-lived

playgrounds, when it will
smell like honeysuckle, you can count on
that

Colin Webb is a native of Baltimore, Md. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in White Wall Review, Apeiron Review, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, The Northern Virginia Review, and elsewhere, and he has been a finalist for The Arch Street Prize.