Chickadee,
despite your omnipresent ubiquitousness
(redundancy for the redundant)
I marvel:
at your heartiness in Maine winter
at your persistent gatherings
at your fierce social order
at your voracious appetite
(for insects, but most of us don't know that)
For most watchers
thrills are reserved for the uncommon -
cardinal, grosbeak, pileated woodpecker
But I thrill to see you
I thrill to see life lived
and need no comparisons
Such only make me a warmonger
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