Sparrowsong

     O my love
       if only you
could listen--hear--
            remember

   Days ago
the silence O
         you wishing back
 September

           Nights have gone
and taken dreams
              the frozen winter
   morning

          Shadows' own,
                        my summer child
now lost in days
         a-borning

The time was once
             and now is gone
     my love, my days of
                  glory

When winter's chill
         kept you beside
    to hear the fabled
                   story

And O my love
          my child if you
would listen--and
             remember

   The days ago
 when comfort O
             was nestled in
December
          NsB 25-11-02