Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Kleinzahler on Niedecker

The sparrow stays
       In breviary 
Despite the riffle raffle
       To her calls
As though she was an eagle
       Impossibly small.

One would think there would be
       Only a bio
              Left —
Yet she feeds on the green
       Moving calligraphies 
               Of grass
As if they could mean
       Even after
               The saying.