Blue Spruce

Audio Recordings, Nature, Nostalgia / tagged Childhood / October 30, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It may have been about thirty feet tall taller when you're small
And on the very top would sit
the great horned owl
If the anti-Christ were to have an anti-Christmas tree
he could have capped it as the perfect dark angel

We cowered by the corner of the house our very blood frozen
prey to his predator eyes
Yet when he flew away we would snap - as only children can - from fear to play
run to divide the branches and return once more to the soft-needled floor
One little two little three little Indians in our magic tepee in a land of long ago and not so far away

With thanks to Al Westnedge for the stunning photograph of the Great Horned Owl.

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