It’s said that you like orange juice.
-Patricia O. Simmons
Perhaps you know
that I squeeze several oranges each day.
Perhaps that’s why you hover
near my door.
You’re noisy like the blue jay,
and not as pretty,
but I like you anyway.
Red is my favorite color
in case you didn’t know,
and you get double points,
because your eyes are red.
So you may stay,
but one word of advice,
eat ants & beetles,
trees are much too nice.
A graduate of the University of Michigan, Patricia O.
Simmons studied with W. D. Snodgrass at Wayne State
and with Tom Sanders at the University of South Florida.
She has published works in New Renaissance, Plains
Poetry Journal, Arkansas Review, and other journals.
