Robins in Love

William Logan

Branched like an artery,

the dying oak leafs out

with February robins.

This is their layover（中途停留） month,

down to the Keys and back.

True snowbirds!

A man with a .45 and a measured eye

could pick them off one by one,

or sketch them -- but why bother?

Imagination is enough,

like that bed you might

have shared with someone else.

They're chaste, chasing each other --

one wing in the future, one in the past.