A Blue Jay cried from his hidden perch as she struggled for a moment finishing the birth with a sudden lurch A cry escaped her lips just before he took a breath starting on this journey called life from this shared beginning, to his private d**h The babe soon settled at peace on the breast and the mother in reflection had finally found time to rest Cool were the breezes that day and white clouds floated in an ice blue sky the sounds of the forest would soon resume as the echoes settled from his first cry Here now was nature at her finest whispering trees singing a secret tune a mountain brook chiming in with it's muffled tones as the sky gave them promise of a full moon She would hold him close to start the bond between them now a fat little nose, crushed to her breast sleepy eyes, wrinkled hands and brow And a Blue Jay was heard once again atop the tallest of trees hopping and squawking first in ones, then twos; and finally threes