Poem of the week: Der Kleiber … by Sujata Bhatt
Der Kleiber: Eurasian Nuthatch (Sitta europaea) … What’s the littlest thing You can spin a poem out of … ? Michael Schmidt * Over here there are enough trees to make us feel sheltered.
Der Kleiber: Eurasian Nuthatch
(Sitta europaea)
… What’s the littlest thing
You can spin a poem out of … ?
Michael Schmidt
*
Over here there are enough trees
to make us feel sheltered.
We hear it first, a loud song:the clear notes so sharp it makes us stop.But there is no fear we think, no pain.When we look up we see the bird:tiny, unlikely.
