Haibun

 

                                                    NEST BUILDING

 

Deep inside an evergreen bush a robin is building a nest.  She is not alone.  With help from her mate, the nest takes form. Twigs, sometimes longer than they are, grasses, bits of fluff.  A well choreographed dance.  One at a time, in one side and out another.  Drop the building material, sit on the pile and twist and squirm to shape it.

                                                   bare dirt–

                                                   setting in the first plant

                                                   for the garden

 

Contemporary Haibun On-line June 2007