Viscous Circle

The broadcast of trees and streets
rests from steer and call,
from rite of tiers
from green terse trace
of bird, insect and wheel

from a bed a section of
a plane is heard
fuselage and wings
dread of scission
leap of leg and claw

take measure in walking
the hole beneath my feet
hold telephone cabling
bundled, twisted
take a leaf from a book from a tree
street and leaf

don't fall or fail to fall
the second voice
sotto voce share phonics
not words. the tree in my lungs,
the chirp in the bones witness and nest