Aviation

The birds know what they're about:

            Aviation

The birds know what they're about:
	raucous coupling
	raucous dissent
	raucous hunger
	
	the terrible rapture of first-flight
	the apocalypse of three-dimensional space

I am a poor novitiate:
	I sit, I watch, 
	but seldom learn
	with more than my pen.

	tomorrow, maybe, I'll open my throat 
	or stretch a cramped wing

--by Janna Urschel