Birds on the Wire
Beneath
Their collective weight the thin wire bowed and in the breeze
It gently swayed both to and fro
Then
Without any overt sign at all they grasped the cable in their claws and rose into the air
Climbing higher
until that cable arched and simultaneously they let go
Delighting in the song it sang
Then they were gone
without a trace
Without
a single feather out of place
Like they had never been there after all
.