Bird Language

What a bird would say to a human.

"Hello there, strange Ape:

With long branches that move and sway Not with the wind,

But possessed by a world nestled within-

A worm tunneling its way through an apple-

Writhing against the perennial milieu.

And with two stout trunks-how quaint!

Plodding through the zoetic verdure with coppicing thuds;

Perhaps you do not realize there is much life in that mud?

And with your chips that sound like bellows-

The way the breeze moves through the trees and moans and groans.

But your hollering gusts just move the limbsof your ape-ish companions:

Acoustics concealing the marionettists' strings.

So then, by what reason do you guide yourselves?

Unyoked from the ecology of your surroundings,

The world cascades into a jumble of puzzle pieces you fidget with clumsily.

Perhaps you should take a dance lesson from a bee,

Or listen to our bird songs with a curious ear, for you may hear,

The guiding logic of all things:

Behold the world as it jives and sings!"

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