Surprise.

Maybe you have seen

the shape of a tree

shimmer and fly apart

as a flock of birds.

Maybe you have heard

birds awaken a landscape

into a dream. Maybe for you

it became a way of knowing

how the notes in their throats

pulse an afternoon, measure

distance, reveal a hidden

grid of a thousand kingdoms

calling, responding. If you have

seen a sudden meteor streak

the night too brief for wishes

then you know the way

the sky can surprise.

Amy Sage Webb Baza