Birdsong

Birdsong is what brings relief
to all your jagged fears
and piercing griefs.

Sit in a garden, any garden.
Inhale the scented, luminous air
and let the music wash through
your clouded and mud-stained soul.

Clarity chimes in a chorus of light
while robin, wren, blackbird, crow
put on a polyphonic, dazzling show.

Consolations 16

Open the curtains
and drink it all in.
What comes without
is what feeds within.