MURMURATIONS

Starlings swarming with the fluidity of

waves, fast wings murmuring almost like bees,

is a phenomenon that might have engaged

Busby Berkeley, Aesop, and Jesus:

for their balletic, airy precision;

for their safety in numbers regarding

the confusion of buzzards and the finding

of worms in winter and seeds in summer;

for their collective abnegation of self.

Consider the starling!