Standing at the kitchen sink

Dish drudgery…fill the dishwasher, empty the dishwasher…staring out the window

Backyard remnants of winter, spent shrubs, broken branches, brown and grey

No leaves except the dead ones piled against the back fence, brown and grey

Brown and grey

Flash of color zips across the yard, lands on a branch, darts and bounces, pecking, looking, hopping, sailing

Flash of Spring