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.