Summer evening snack—
 
I reach for the ripest plum
 
in the clean, white bowl.

 
 
 

birds in my plum tree
 
snatching up hapless insects
 
for their midday snack

 
 
 

What would you do, crow,
 
without this white butterfly
 
for your midday snack?

Snack

 
 
 

a ravenous crow
 
homing in on its next snack—
 
hapless ladybug