Friday, September 28, 2012

Poetry Friday: To Ninety

A city sparrow
touches down
on a bare branch

in the fork of a tree
through whose arms
the snow is sifting —

swipes his beak
against wood, this side
then that,

and flies away:
what sight
could be more common?

Yet I think
for such sights alone
I would live to ninety.

-- Robyn Sarah, from Questions About the Stars. © Brick Books, 1998.

2 comments:

Robin E. said...

I can't add anything... Thank you for this. :)

Melanie Bettinelli said...

Oh lovely. Thank you.