she watches from
the cedar tree this young and
patient chickadee as older birds
flit gracefully to feeder perch
and back; she sees the deft maneuver
each trip needs to back-flap
wings, alight and feed and then retreat,
with precious seed.
she tries it
once, her timing's poor another lands
ahead of her -- she didn't know
to take her turn there seems so
much she has to learn; this gentle
complex aerial dance coordinated in
advance, no single
movement left to chance.
a hundred trials
and now she's deft; she picks the
seeds with larger heft, and some she
opens with her beak and masters 'rap
on branch' technique to open others,
practicing eternal, joyful
'rites of wing', as one with every
living thing.
each day 'the
monster' trudges through and spouts a
trove of seeds into the little
plastic cylinders, then wanders back
between the firs and whistles
'pseudo chick-a-dee' the
two-note-falling plaintive plea, and wishes he
could be so
free.
our songbird,
sated, soars away and checks
reserve supplies each day -- she has a
thousand extra stores in case 'the
monster' comes no more. and then it's
time for rest and fun, to sing and
frolic in the sun, her life has only
just begun.
she lives in 'now
time',
nature's child, all is abundant
in the wild. she lives to
sense, to learn, to play, explore,
converse, reflect, convey, self-manage,
love, be present, show that's all she'll
ever need to know: let things pass
through,
be one with flow.
for she has
learned to 'know'
her place, a model now, of
Gaia's grace.
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