nocturnal birds
leave their stooped bodies
and come to the roofless house
where the stars peer through the holes
to the roofless house
a woman comes -
she made of bread
thrown on the floor by children
birds comb with crooked paws
her hair
she tells them:
“I must look like a princess”
a woman comes to the sleeping children
“Are you a princess?”
the children ask
she leads them to the cliffs
where a wheat grows
hot from the moonlight