after Alfred Starr Hamilton
light plays on the planet
long enough to tell time
the bird tells time by the sundial
the sundial by the bird
time will tell the bird a tale
the sundial’s never heard
a tale as long as the riverbank
from here to the hydroelectric plant
man-o-man, the bird will think
as it sails above the river
the plant is not a plant
the bank is not a bank
the bird alights on a branch
of the river, the bank, a tree
the bird leaves the tree leaves
behind on the stage
of the play it pages through
Photograph © fotologic
