A poem for your Monday

[phoenix64]

November Waxwings

I watch the waxwings
In front of the library
They take off into the air
In their murmuration
Inviolable and entire in the way they move
Sometimes to chase off a larger bird
Even one that was minding its own business
Sometimes for reasons I know nothing about
But then sometimes
They rise higher
Further and further
Up
Their formation
Coming      apart
Rising
                                     so far
so small

           looking

                              like
                   ashes

                                         floating

But eventually
They come back down
They come together again
Looking like something knitting itself together again
Looking like something healing

Comments

[travels_in_time]

I love the format! I can SEE them taking off and then reforming and coming back down!

Also, "murmuration". <3