It takes very little to fundamentally change you

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