Stellar Jays
Big Sur’s sapphire delinquents
screech abrasive epithets,
roost on pine limbs
surrounding canopied tables
on Nepenthe’s back deck.
Swift thieves dart,
snatch Ambrosia burger scraps,
fallen fries,
chunks of sourdough bread.
Wait staff carry spray bottles,
spritz ice water showers
to rudely rebuff
brazen avian robbers.
Disgruntled blue bandits persist,
pester diners,
pilfer wilted lettuce,
abandoned blackberries,
crumbs of leftover quiche.
Jennifer Lagier lives a block from the Monterey stage where Janis Joplin performed and Jimi Hendrix torched his guitar. She has published twenty books, in a variety of anthologies and literary magazines, edits the Monterey Poetry Review, helps coordinate Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium Second Sunday readings. Website: jlagier.net, Facebook: www.facebook.com/JenniferLagier/
Big Sur’s sapphire delinquents
screech abrasive epithets,
roost on pine limbs
surrounding canopied tables
on Nepenthe’s back deck.
Swift thieves dart,
snatch Ambrosia burger scraps,
fallen fries,
chunks of sourdough bread.
Wait staff carry spray bottles,
spritz ice water showers
to rudely rebuff
brazen avian robbers.
Disgruntled blue bandits persist,
pester diners,
pilfer wilted lettuce,
abandoned blackberries,
crumbs of leftover quiche.
Jennifer Lagier lives a block from the Monterey stage where Janis Joplin performed and Jimi Hendrix torched his guitar. She has published twenty books, in a variety of anthologies and literary magazines, edits the Monterey Poetry Review, helps coordinate Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium Second Sunday readings. Website: jlagier.net, Facebook: www.facebook.com/JenniferLagier/
