THE HAWK DECK 5:39pm

by Joanna Gilman Hyde

What wonder in  a flock of tweeting

twittering Birds overhead —

I heard Them coming before I saw Them —

They began to break up above Me

as I eagerly watched to see Them form Letters

of The Alphabet —

Letters maybe to divine a message

but how could I expect Those Birds —

that Body of Bird Life —

to know My Language?