house-sparrow-sparrow   sparrow-anywhere-and-always
cardinal-anywhere-and-always

hawk-hawk-maybes    diving yards across
some  crow-crow-crow-heavy-landing  on railing

yellowthroat     really?

song? sparrow tree? sparrow 

mourning-dove-or-mockingbird-what-counts-as-seeing
junco-or-sparrow   in-boxwood-depths-who-knows
robin-against-the-lit-up-sky-then-again    many days
house-finch-not-close finch-finch-shapes-on-shed

tufted titmouse Carolina wren Chickadee sunshine

sudden starling-starling-starling-starling-and-
robin-robin-robin   not-intermingling 

wind-lashed-leaf-no-one   except squirrel-of-course

woodpecker-hairy-or-downy   red-bellied-sometimes
upwards-nuthatch downwards-nuthatch blue jay

white-throated-sparrow-sparrow  junco   hopping picking
phoebe-phoebe-phoebe-prelude   dove-dove-necking

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Prompt: Keep a log of something, anything; sporadically, contiguously; for a short period or over an extended period, and take it from there. It may help to keep the object of your attention concrete and centered around your senses.

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Burgi Zenhaeusern (she/her) is the author of the chapbook Behind Normalcy (CityLit Press, 2020). She co-edited the translations of the anthology Knocking on the Door of The White House (zozobra publishing, 2017). Her work, most recently, appeared in Little Patuxent Review and as broadside from Ashland Poetry Press.