Visiting Cardinals

Chip Dameron

September 15, 2024

male redbird offers 

seed to female at birdbath

love at first bite

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goateed cardinal

hops along under feeder

bebop carrot top

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meanings of life:

cardinal’s call to its mate,

lone cicada husk

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cardinal atop

stake holding stained-glass twin

life imitates art

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rusted roadrunner 

beside stained-glass cardinal

vibrant lifelessness

Chip Dameron’s latest book, Relatively Speaking, is a shared collection with Betsy Joseph. A member of the Texas Institute of Letters, he’s also been a Dobie Paisano fellow.