Blue Spruce

Audio Recordings, Family, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Birds, Childhood, Play / May 15, 2024 / 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
and 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 could 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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