This one is really promising. The images resonate, and the specificity of the titmouse is just right. I like how in the wake of the speaker's work is death/murder.
I think the 4th line could be stronger. I'm not so taken with "steal," which seems too pejorative. The word can certainly be violent ("yank"), but "steal" has a moral dimension that I don't think this poem needs or wants. I also don't like ending the line with the flat "from the"--perhaps the easiest solution is to cut the "the" and add a syllable to line four, have it end with "from."
 

authors note: changed lines 4 and 5 from "titmice flit and steal worms from the / damp earth."
 

Excellent.
 

nice :)
;))