flecks and chips
ardent spots of orange and blue
yellow streaked with red
chestnut-sided, bay-breasted
rufous bits of belly
black and yellow, dun-faced
olive patches
fleas move in fits
across the lens of sky
there is no center to the increment’s
disintegrated synchrony
swarming of sparks, fire corkscrews
spiraling “advance”
out of centers in congery
of consumption
these bits of burning fat
in mixed flocks
are blown forward, grain
by grain
lodged milliseconds on branch
visitors at aerial ends
gleans on the “floor” of sky
dives to mid or rolled under-
story (the wetter the wings
a hot song fries
from sparkle as it clears
and drops spiral sun |
