delicate birds

(book dated 07?)
The the harder the delicate birds swing
the longer the towering church bells ring

untill the sun crashes below the wall
and the rubber serpents heed their call

to come and shoot their jets of spray
into the pool of floating hay.

but when the fragile birds hang still
the air is gone away where it will

and the bells become the serpents eyes
the swim beneath the darkened skies
and through a cloud of frozen flies.