Waxwings

 Four Tao philosophers as cedar waxwings
chat on a February berry bush
in sun, and I am one.


Such merriment and such sobriety--
the small wild fruit on the tall stalk--
was this not always my true style?

Above an elegance of snow, beneath
a silk-blue sky a brotherhood of four
birds.
 Can you mistake us?

To sun, to feast, and to converse
and all together--for this I have abandoned
all my other lives.

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