Bread of Heaven

A pigeon’s religion

consists of a smidgen

of kitchen provisions

it picks off the floor.

It stakes its decision

on pious ambition

to take what it’s given

and poke it some more.

With celestial vision

it pecks with precision – 

a timeless tradition

in avian lore.

When faced with derision

it states its position:

this heavenly bread’s

what my mission is for. 

Joshua Seigal