Semblance of a Bird’s Chirp
A bitter bird chirps inside the wood.
Semblance of a bird
semblance of a chirp.
Perhaps a blackbird strike
the wood with its beak. It rains,
bird has no other refuge, chick-chick
on the window, the sound of the rain
only louder. However, there is no rain
nor window in the wood, only
darkness in its viscera and dry pus.
Other times, other birds on leaves
and branches. The blackbird: look at it,
it has found a way to wedge itself
intact
(From its beak down as a boat
in a Lilliputian bottle)
and always chick-chick and chick
hard to decipher sounds from
the invisible bird,
like when you hear
that God appeared, as in a miracle,
to His chosen people.
Manolis Aligizakis 