Every day we all look out
Feeders full, binocs ready
They are coming northward
Along the ancestral roads
As yet unbroken, if frayed
Anthropocene not yet their doom
A warming world not yet finished
First of season a flittering delight
Last of season too sad to contemplate
I try to look up at the sky
To take in the song
As if I will never hear it again

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