Perched Around Me

Perched around me are the robins of my life.

Hardly tame,

they remain creatures of Nature.

Yet in every tree I find them,

from every tree I hear them,

perched as they go about their

robinly concerns,

They are not there for me

but for the joy of their own existence.

Like the mountain goat leaping over abysses

for the fun of it

(or to get to the other side, as the hen

crosses the road).

Like those other unselfconscious

beings of light,

the robins live for themselves.

But the sight and sound of them,

the knowledge of what we share,

brings me back,

again and again,

from the brink.

Perched around me are the robins of my life.

 

 

 

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