A bird 
 a bird

 churched 
 on the Absurd

 hacking rhymes 
 like a sea wave of ants 

 crossing a hunger 
 tender redoubtable 

 belly insatiable 
 for plunder & bait.

Thunder swoons
 along a listening arc
 
muzzled 
to its lift

to the grammar grimoire 
 to the belle-lettristic.

These irreconcilable 
cravings 

annex the wing -
 over and over

 as love and death 
does its thing.