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     In a grassy field

   Mushrooms rising overnight

     Make a fairy ring.

                       Wings a whirring blur,
       The hummingbird wears a veil

            Of shimmering gauze.

     Chattering sparrows

  Arrange themselves on a wire

    Like a string of beeds.

    Quails hunched together

    Share a warming blanket

      Of new fallen snow.

     Winter’s icy wand

  Turns cedars into maidens

   Dressed in ermine robes.



Sandpiper

                       Like a little boat,

                  He skims along the shoreline,

                      Bobbing and bowing.