#2091 - one more for the birds

 

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one more for the birds

 

as loud as light

         flit

their world is all the outward air

 

lizardly cloud with a tail up there

 

so many songs

the one day bright

 

as to a proof

 

so many more than us they are

five to one

little dinosaurs

 

at twig’s, at leaf’s end

see into our otherland

 

and raucous

sing the windows wide

 

they tell themselves to snakes

 

in out of treefold

hard partying

 

and have we told laughter?

 

they dance into the upper reaches

 

and ten k’s high

though some ask why

 

what’s mortality to them?

 

time is the cliff from which all fall

 

a forest’s afoot in these wings