• Rice fields growing green
    and looking like a soft, fluffy quilt
    27 cranes looking for their breakfast
    walking gently over the bed

    3 cranes sipping water from the stream
    One floating like a cloud above the water
    The rest are walking on their long, strong legs
    through the patchwork of grasses

    I count them all
    there are 27
    snow white and
    beautiful