dendrite

 

how many birds in that tree? quickly

count them. . . . . thirty. one there

at the end in silhouette at the end of

branching sits, and sits, and sits,

then shifts a little on that twig,

then to another a bit down

sits. and sits. . . and sits against

the morning or with it for a little

while, before their unison decides

somehow to fly away together