Singing from a bush...
A way off where Gordon Creek
.. enters Grande Ronde River
... is a place called White Horse Cafe,
surely a noteworthy historical site.
Certainly worthy of note,
.. for the northern shrike sings there,
... celebrating the slightest bit of sun
and guarding his caches.
Not even a promise of spring,
.. simply celebrating the sun
... and a winter's plenty
of mice and sparrows and space.
Perhaps, I too should sing
.. from the top of a thorny bush,
... sing of fresh mice and the day,
burbling and trilling with abandon.
.. --r.anderson
