CRUMBS

Nothing – no movement.

Imperceptibly they appear.

Tentatively – always the smaller first.

Hopping balls of feather.

Peck. Swift retreat.

Quick perching replacements,

Bigger, bolder,

Surveying swooping.

Quadrupled now, and varied.

Quick tussle.

Swift exodus in the face of black predators.

To the strongest, the crumbs.