Like wind made visible
a small dark cloud swirls above trees
swoops and swings like a kite
then suddenly splinters like pixels on a computer screen
uncoalescing.
A wave that on the screen dissolves an image
into thousands of unrecognizable bits
here splinters it into recognizability
of birds.
a small dark cloud swirls above trees
swoops and swings like a kite
then suddenly splinters like pixels on a computer screen
uncoalescing.
A wave that on the screen dissolves an image
into thousands of unrecognizable bits
here splinters it into recognizability
of birds.
The dots have lost cohesion.
Each flies aimlessly, confusedly.
Suddenly the flock implodes again
into a dense black swooshing host
a calligrapher's flourish
a skier's rhythm on downhill turns
a melody's graceful loops, molto vivace.
Suddenly the unity explodes again.
All the birds become each bird
finding a perch in an autumn tree.
I thought the show had ended then
and was ready to go on my way
when a gust of wind flushed
a silhouette of birds into a skyward flutter
and a flutter of leaves earthward wending:
mirror images twinkling in the morning light
sprinkling the air with beauty
before it was empty again.
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