Robins and warblers, vireos and finches
Mating and fighting, crying and loving
Monologues, dialogues and considered action
Of awakenings, death and eerie dreaming
I was among friends, modelers, tinkerers
the drivings and walkings in shadow and sun,
In fields of islands, flowers, stars and the sea
We articulated, gesticulated and confabulated
Lessons, readings and viewings t'were hard won