Night Bird
Some beating in there
That has bunched, and backed
Up on it out of moonlight, and now
Is somewhere around. You are sure that like a curving grave
It must be able to fall
and rise
and fall and that’s
Right, and rise
on your left hand
or other
Or behind your back on one hand
You don’t have and suddenly there is no limit
To what a man can get out of
His failure to see:
this gleam
Of air down the nape of the neck, and in it everything
There is of flight.
and nothing else,
and it is
All right and all over you
From around
as you carried
In yourself and there is no way
To nothing-but-walk—
No way and a bidden flurry
and a half-you of air.