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| winter sparrows | |
| a leafless tree | |
| swaying with borrowed buds | |
| of numerous visiting sparrows - | |
| tiny beaked pinecones | |
| that just won't sit still, | |
| the determined flurry | |
| of each down-covered hop | |
| to the next yet-unvisited branch | |
| advertised so predictably by | |
| those unavoidable chirps. | |
| © Jon Bohrn (1999) |
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