I cannot look away from the bald eagles
Jackie and Shadow and their three eggs
Atop some tree where they’ve built a nest
Of sticks and grass and stalks and sod
Jackie and Shadow and their three eggs
Performing live for the Big Bear Valley
with sticks and grass and stalks and sod
I cannot resist a bit of ludicrous optimism
Performing live for the Big Bear Valley
Cameras feeding thousands of watchers
Hungry for a taste of ludicrous optimism
Rather than some Biden-Trump rematch
YouTube feeds thousands of watchers
Suggested videos like the Daily Show
Clip tackling the Biden-Trump rematch
When all we need is Jackie and Shadow
Instead of shitty ads for the Daily Show
Or the call from my son who’s hit a deer
And I cry thinking of Jackie’s dedication
The sixty-two hours protecting her clutch
I call to comfort my son about the deer
As he waits in the cold and dark and wind
Six hours for a truck to clutch and tow
The crumpled steel from a Georgia ditch
Jackie waits in the cold and dark and wind
For Shadow to deliver a fish or a big stick
She pipes a whistle of high-pitched approval
Joins the rest of us in ludicrous optimism
