Long
shadows on blue snow
Warm
sun stepping around trees
Life’s
mysterious light and dark.
Trees
standing tall
Uncovered
faces in the wind
Snow
collecting in the cleft of boughs
Sap
deeply stored
Feetless
birds, round as tennis balls
Perched
facing the warming sun
Random
song
Reassuring
their own kind
Reaching
limb to limb,
Barren
bark remembers melting snow
Turns
to buds in spring.
Stand
tall, reserve sap
Accept
visitors
Wrap
the bird song like a scarf
by Mary Ann E. Adams