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| Granny's Bonnets (Aquilegia) |
A Blackbird Chick
...ran out of the undergrowth
where garden runs to wildness,
then scuttled back again.
For weeks the parent sang
from the branches of an oak,
spelled out an arc of protection
around the nest, hidden here below
in a tangle of ivy, under Granny’s Bonnets
and a spiny quince by the garden path.
It was a song that held the spring
of the year in every quavering note,
releasing the summer so this chick
discovers the world awaiting each new life
finding a way through the bushes and briars
out into the open and endless sky.
...ran out of the undergrowth
where garden runs to wildness,
then scuttled back again.
For weeks the parent sang
from the branches of an oak,
spelled out an arc of protection
around the nest, hidden here below
in a tangle of ivy, under Granny’s Bonnets
and a spiny quince by the garden path.
It was a song that held the spring
of the year in every quavering note,
releasing the summer so this chick
discovers the world awaiting each new life
finding a way through the bushes and briars
out into the open and endless sky.
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| Quince |
