Signs

Consider the bird.
Consider the dreamer who witnesses a bird flinging
into a church, the windows yawned open.
Consider whose death will follow.


Consider the flinging.


Consider the time between sign and dying, time nothing
to do with teh bird or the witness or the waiting.
Consider their congregation.
Consider the sermon near middle when the bird comes


Consider the bound ceiling, and the jerking bird zig-zagging about.


Consider that the death would be sudden.
Consider the old.
The funeral-tired, the hymn-weary, arm-weak.


Considering flinging.


Consider, congregation.
The hovering flutters stuck.
A promise.


Each, every proof.

(c) Forest Hamer, Middle Ear