It is dark and rainy today
and I hear our mild weather
is departing tomorrow
after clinging
so tenaciously
into this December
my mind wanders
to little birds' feet
their delicacy
and intricacy
as they grasp
tightly
onto their perch
until it is time to depart
sort of like my little redbud leaf
small and delicate
still clinging tenaciously
until
it also decides
it is time to go.
I will miss it.
~ sharing with ~
