615 Heartbeaker & a lil' nature poem

Wintertime Dawn Walk

around a Tennessee lake

yielded seven different birds

including a Bald Eagle

and an elderly Heron.

Not to minimize the importance

of the Robin, Wren, Woodpecker,

or the chubby Cardinal

that followed me,

flitting around from tree to frosty tree

like someone had been feeding it,

but those are two are big ones

for the first woods walk of the year.

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