24 April 2009, just after dawn

This morning I watched a bird
in a red hood and speckled cape
eat a cherry blossom.

I wandered to his tree and stood
and watched him tap the bark of the bicep
with his beak.

What was he doing with such a red crest?
I wanted to ask him more, when the light
filled my ears with the sound of church bells and school bells.

Sophistication

To borrow from Janean...

Ravi Zacharias said:

"Science today has given us improved means to attain some of our damnable ends. That's not true of all science, that's not true of all  of the means so do not take that as an extreme; but it is true that some of our technologies have made us more sophisticated in our evil."

Oh, Ravi!  You write words with my heart.  I feel Vendetta II brewing.