No Wonder They Seemed So Bitter

I

told Noemi

I now know

 

why

robins’ bellies

are red–they

 

gorge

our ripe

strawberries one by

 

one.

I spied

a male squabbling

 

with

two females

over a plump

 

red

berry. He

seized it, flew

 

away,

leaving them

the green ones.