Passerine: Seeing

Passerine: Seeing

Amazing the layers the fragrances

the nose relates to

in this little room: heat, after

rising, receding.  Or the needling

freeze beginning to really

achieve feet in a December deep.  See 

into the easing leeward east

how the free

upheaving of the galivanting passerines:

they squeeze in the lilac still, and redeem

the freeze for me: their meetings: chickadees,   

titmice, male and female cardinals seeking

each other undeterringly in this winter breeze, seeds

in their beaks, free even 

while the congeniality of this blizzard is weeks

in receding from deepest yet in

the freezing, from flinging me to seeing

in the breezeway window the feet 

of the each of these passerines brief adhesive 

and the density of everyone's breathing,

the seized, and (as if in a bell jar schemed

terraria) each of these seasons 

redolence's feasting wended off in the eternity

in the briefest freeze of splintering

bird needs.