a tall skinny T of a lamppost
built to raise two diffuse globes
of lux is tangled one shoulder
tilted wrestling with a bare
branched tree while the other
is missing into this cavity alight
two brown birds plump like
hand puppets pecking down
in a chattering way and then
up as if shaking a gizzard's
seed companionably as if
they are old intimates porch
sitting enjoying ignoring
each others and passersby
as a form of welcome