articulation...

birds deploy mightily

with weightless feathers

attitude at altitude

emotive on the wind

they hurl themselves

in warm blooded silence 

rocketing through space

birds navigate by faith

an impossibility of air

threadlike through fabric

they weave patterns

that culminate a life

birds are as immediate

and singular as language 

as words that also deploy

upon the properties of air

attenuated chariots of tuition

that catapult free floating

through space to mingle 

surge and ebb fluidly
within the shifting, morphing

body of their murmuring flock

formulating tissues of comprehension

with which their framers

cloak mystery with beauty,

query, challenge and rebellion   

they mount the atmosphere

wings deployed to escalate

then fold back their meaning

purposefully to their sides

like swift adamant arrows

they rush joyfully onward

bravely to meet their mark...

lucy meskill