3) & Generally the Future is Uncertain

Into or out of meaning, the shop is full

of the singing of birds.

And the second is a story. A story

of the birds as they sing.

A story of the singing.

I only want

what you're unable to give.

The music of the birds

from the ceiling. The picture of birds

along the wall.

Anything else

isn't worth wanting. The faces

in the window, perhaps.

The children on the sidewalk. The shop

next to another shop.

Some final point you might ask yourself.

Some question.

The plastic flowers on the stand.

The sun across the flowers.

---John Gallaher