5.1 Delegation

DELEGATION

by Eric Chaet

A bunch of sparrows
burst across my path
& all over a bush
as I was walking to work
wearing their cruddy feathers again—
I don’t guess they ever change.

Moved so fast, I never counted them—
talked, sang—& were off again—
before I could decipher
what language they were negotiating in—
all over the blue & clouds & sun
& as nowhere to be seen as seeds
before I realized they’d visited me!

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Picture: Kubo Shunman