Flight Risk

Starting at zero, or less
the measure & the rhyme as capabilities as
candle- or neon-lit tremors in the nasturtium (seen
in late afternoon shade)
has returned me to the World once again

(this one as opposed to what exactly?)

A birdsong stops you & you wonder―
redwing blackbird?
coastal song sparrow?
beach nightingale?

I thought I saw something move (wings?)

The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock
vs The Birds by Aristophanes

“the Muses / told Hesiod / there was / 4 things got”
1. the Hollow Pearl
2. A Lexicon of Homeric Dialect
3. disposable needles
4. the slow train bends like a woman

There was no mention of birds