A bird is a kind
of island. In flight,
a flock is called
an archipelago.
At rest, a peninsula.
When two flocks
meet, they are called
a communion.
Used in a sentence:
Two flocks
met and became
a communion.
A surgeon opens
a body with a scalpel.
A scalpel is a kind
of bird: small,
thin, flightless.
A flock of scalpels
is called a bouquet.
Children are a kind
of book. We take them
from the library
and put them back.
A flock of children
is called a collection.
A body is a body
until it falls into ruin.
Then the body
is a kind of nothing.
A nothing is a kind
of bird: rare, sweet
voiced, carnivorous.
It eats the eggs
of other birds.
It’s the island I go to
when I fall into ruin.
