after John Ashbery
The birds opened their coffee klatch in earnest,
chatting the sky from black to blue in maybe
a hundred singing telegrams. I sipped coffee
and eavesdropped on the overlapping timbres
and turns of phrase in their feathered acrobatics.
Pick-up trucks grumbled past, into Wednesday,
more mind-reader than machine for engines
which sounded more like driver’s complaints
than random idling. Amid the light twittering,
a raven sounded a bass note twice. The other
birds stopped. Paused to listen? A long silence.
A second raven answered, more like laughing.
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