The contrails remain.
The wind at 30,000 feet
Still,
but for the vortex of the hummingbird.

The grid of war
begins
to evaporate.
Just because the sun has begun
to warm the air.

The scaffold begins to move like steel beams
to the construction site to build
another throne,
eiffel tower
or war memorial on the back of god
in another galaxy.

The single note of a goldfinch
shimmers in the morning light

And the cage is open.
 
 
 
© Rick Forman