frozen movement

birds are not real they are a conspiracy
the paper pages of the book had said
they will watch you as you live
      your lives all lived within
the boundaries of the mortal thread
     a line with no middle

and no end of the beginning
or the beginning of the end

until the inevitable stasis of the avian paradigm
     shadows Kelvin
     with the retraction of choice
     cuffed
by atmospheric pressure
clipped by a deranged motorist