Chapter 12

a story only you can tell...

 

Winter in the Central Park Rambles where

'tis time! bells chime nightly sprightly,

"'tis Time"

 

TITMOUSE

“If you & I know sugar was snow…

then you & I know there’d be no sweeter place than winter!

It’s supposedly so, don’t you think so?

and I wonder if:...cotton balls

made snow balls

then surely a snowman…

could be…

snow men

and then…

we’d be in no sweeter place than winter!”

 

As April showers may bring May flowers

so surely shall sugar rain shower sweeter snow angels

who could kiss C L O U D S, too

 

and if you could do that

wouldn’t you, too?

 

This is the place where though everyone there

knows there snows there

still it seems…

dreams of sugar & cotton and angel snow cream

 

Now we’re in no sweeter place than winter!

 

STARLING

“When you wish upon a starling,

star light, star bright starlings sing of many things

and so now I do sing to thee of sky and ‘a’ and ‘b’ and ‘c’

but thou must know we starlings go where starlings go

so there go I

I go, Go, GO!

 

It’s simple ABC’s for Sora see…

 

                         After

                         Balance & Beating Blue Jays

                         Come C L O U D kisses

 

In the world’s front and backyard’s Rambles

it’s easy to ramble on about a bell at the zoo,

and of all things when it rings…

 

so you’ll so, So, SO believe in these things…

"'Tis Time,” chimes it’s knell

’tis time to ramble on once more

about an eyass with no balance no more!

who’ll soar higher than any hawk ever before!

 

’Tis time for the time

when a squirrel could kick

Sora out of a tree…

 

until a squirrel couldn’t!

 

'cause dear reader: lighter than air, balanced and there...

Sora floats down, ever so gently, ever more so sweetly

to a branch no bigger than one-half your little finger!

 

"ROCK ON" SQUIRREL

“Rock On, Sora!!”

 

An eyass named Sora for the sky he couldn’t find…

 

until he did!

 

The sky who couldn’t fly

and the wind who loved the sun

nestled in their crooked oak tree

listened to us

and we

 

laughing & playing and

  being

the best of who we are

 us

 

never noticing them mere feet away

merely a few pin oaks away…

 

until we did!

 

and they & we

were content to

 “be”

 

and with the Wind at his back

as big sisters do protecting little brothers

Sora flew

 

higher than any hawk ever before

could do

or any hawk still yet to be

will ever yet to do!

 

 

Winter 2015: Kaze practicing night & day & night

 & there...

The Winter Wind blew from the west to the east

and she flew south by day and north by night

from a little fledgling in the dark…

who black & white loved the light

 

Maybe you may believe

it was magical as magical is as magically does

 

but magic or no this Wind from the west

who loved to lie down in the light and fly in the dark

has grown up like the wind: the fastest urban hawk in the park!

 

But there were angels here, weren’t there?

Kaze & Sora’s father & mother: the "Earth" & the "Air"

 

nestled angels: nestlings wind & sky

 

who from this crooked little pin oak tree

a mere 30 feet above you & me

 

built the only true tree nest of red tailed hawks

merely 30 feet high…

 

30 feet high not a whisper-thin more

the only true red tail tree nest in Central Park lore

 

Please now let’s turn to the parents once more

and return to the spring of their eyasse’s birth

to their mother the air

to their father the earth

 

built the only true tree nest of eyasses there

 

in the spring of ’14

in a meadow for sheep

from this pin oak tree

no more than 30 feet than

 

and there the Air

and our story began…

 

It began in May as you may recall

in a big city park

in a glade very small

Father Earth & Mother Air

nestled 2 baby eyasses there…

 

branch by branch

it was home, sweet, home

 

FATHER EARTH

“You won’t fail, I won’t let you,

you can’t fall because I’ll catch you”

 

and their mother was there…

 

always there…

 

as strong as earth

as constant as air

 

And with love’s light wings did they o’erperch all

 

And like a breath of fresh air, their nest refreshed!

 

Mother first

Father followed

 

and Kaze was born

“Bee-Yoo-Yong!!”

 

and Sora soon after

 

and from the Earth & Air

there was Wind & Sky

 

the very first red tailed hawks from a true tree nest

in Central Park in so, So, SO long upon-a-time

that truly…

it’s a story

 

The Next Spring…

 

with the Earth in his perch

and the Air nestled there…

Kaze & Sora would have 3 little brothers and sisters

 

but that’s another story…

 

Now for us dear reader…

 

Where are your own C L O U D kisses?

 

Where is that one place in the whole world

You’d rather be more than anywhere else?

Where you are your best parts of the you you always knew!?

 

And what would you do when you get there?

 

Everyday Magic All Always Around You

 Every  Day Magically...

 

...and how will you get there?

 

BUT THAT'S A STORY ONLY YOU CAN TELL!

 

AND I CAN'T WAIT TO HEAR IT!

 

 

 

THE END