Not a Siskin
Quick - get the book.
Where’s the book?
Here. Rifle, shuffle,
Ruffle like a deck.
A flick of wet feathers,
Yellow underneath
Tending to beige?
Some dabs of zinc.
A jubilant trill?
Insistent sing-song?
But - oh - it’s gone -
A flutter of wings and pages.
Morn @imcmillan.bsky.social