Black Bird
Foregoing the early meal
Cold-water-fed sweetgrass
Field & brush resplendent by your settling
Here I sing
My red-yellow shoulders heave
Breathy exhalations
Restless adoration
Black bird
All day
On cattails, pond side
In swaying meditation
Many suns, many more moons fade
None have filled my mind like
you, a sunrise
Twice you rose above the hill
Stopping me barelegged
What did you feel?
Can the sun reciprocate love at first sight
I called to you, my name
Did you hear it
Are you coming back
I'm your black bird