“Who the hell do you think you are?

Don’t promise me the impossible!”
 

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Sparrow | Passer domesticus
House Finch | Carpodacus mexicanus

Chasing the summer madness,
unlocking a fearless wind,
drunk songbirds get their wild-eyed kicks.
 

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Sparrow | Passer domesticus

A star in her own show,
a worn and slightly disheveled songbird,
between the lightning and the wild rain.
 

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Sparrow | Passer domesticus

A energetic songbird makes a noisy show
of its disapproval with an interloping starling,
a frontal assault on the open border policy of my backyard,
soon to take a sharp turn toward the unruly.
 

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Sparrow | Passer domesticus
Starling | Sturnus vulgaris

Two female songbirds argue,
intolerable demands and threats
send shock waves through receding feathers.
 

Any ideas on the actual conversation?
Write your own caption.
 

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Sparrow | Passer domesticus

In the air or at the clubs,
the Dharma Bums warp the world
with the switchback force of their clean,
antagonistic style.

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Sparrow | Passer domesticus

A contrast of light and shadow,
an acrobatic space unfolding where
the real cavorts with the imaginary.

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Sparrow | Passer domesticus

Winter memories on a hot day,
wind-tossed songbirds tumble through a storm
like broken toys falling from
the hand of tired young Zeus.
 

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Sparrow | Passer domesticus

Dispatch from a colder age
 

Chasing the summer’s heat,
a songbird leaps in a calculated arc,
and a star melts the cold country
beneath her wings.
 

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Sparrow | Passer domesticus

A finch and a sparrow meet at an outdoor market,
a chance encounter on a sluggish day,
their transparent, plaintive cries
painlessly fading after a hasty parting.
 

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Sparrow | Passer domesticus
House Finch | Carpodacus mexicanus

Two rebellious songbirds full of nervous energy,
unlikely hybrids of wind and delirium,
avian punks go for broke without brakes,
a knockout with no chance to catch a breath.
 

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Sparrow | Passer domesticus