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                        Birdsong and Branches

I’m telling you; there were birds in my fire.

I heard them singing in the orange flames while the snow fell.

I thought how odd, the very branches they toddled

now aflame in the firebox; birdsongs and branches.

I wondered: did it make me miss the spring?

Then as I watched the snowfall coupled with the melody,

I just knew, I love birds, I love melody, dare I say, I love snow?

I smelled the birch, I savored the birdsong…

Birdsong and branches…

I’m telling you; there were birds in my fire.

             Joseph James

                  12/24/12

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