Yardwork.

A man stands on a ladder

and cuts through a branch that hangs over his driveway.

It's as thick as his arm

and he considers the branch as his arm

and turns the saw off.

He considers his arm a branch

and provides his face shade

while a mother cardinal preens herself

on two hatching eggs. Leaves fall 

from the tree onto a Volvo sedan

with a dead battery.