There it is, the wren.
Keep still. Breathe in.
The tiny bird
with stumpy tail
has landed near
the windowsill
and moves from twig to stem
as quietly as rain.

Feathered and breathing,
it matches its portrait
on the copper farthings
of my childhood
sixty years ago
but look away
and it has gone again
from then to now.

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