NEST BUILDING

1.

Some play the flute

some piccolo,

plaintive oboe,

some clack the castanets

tap the wooden fish

wind chime

triangle

one or two blow tuba

each tries a phrase of timid spring

they all sound green

2.

Dusk, dawn

in my heart

repeating

A-flat major

C-sharp minor

thrilled arpeggios

the rise and plummeting glissando

staccato or detached

allegro, adagio

scoreless

rondos and études

3.

Reverberant, symphonic

unseen instruments

magpies common or blue

green white-eye, blue whistling thrush

I invite you all

Eurasian hobby, hill partridge, cuckoo, collared scops owl,

wanderers, residents,

birds in transit, exotics,

this old lived-in colony

I’m under the trees

you’re in them