Friday, December 11, 2009

Synaptics

Chickadee lands on feeder bracket outside the window
cold, winter, his breath coming in trails from tiny nostrils -
I have seen that, have felt the warmth of their clenching toes
as they've flown to my hand -

and I go to Utube in this age to seek the song, IN THE COLD MIDWINTER.....

Watching and listening it, my thoughts go to son Lee, soon to graduate from the University of Wisconsin, then to take a teaching position in Houston with Teach for America Corps. He'll be leading an elementary classroom of children, perhaps like these in the video clip.


As in olden days, Lee ropes his way