(for Ruby)
Streamlined sleek through rose-drenched air,
Glides the down on mystic dare;
A breath away the lilac bush
Absorbs the tiny silken rush.
Darting needle-curtained sky,
The second soars in swift reply,
Embraced by ancient gnarly pine—
Stupefaction all ashine!
Impatience taunts intrinsic fears
As fledgling three lifts, dips and veers,
Winging to a mother's coax—
Inveterate melody convokes.
The insistent chant, mimicked low,
Swells from slow adagio—
Intense, alive—to throbbing song,
Intoning fourth among the throng.
First or last, a burden carries,
As lonesome fifth in feather tarries;
When suddenly, the breakaway—
Sublimity—ascension day!