Scarlet and teal
raven and maize
throat-blush
and wing-strobe.
Breathless stutter, vertigo,
feint, heart-frenzy,
small skitterings,
stalled vectors.
Bodies like thumbs,
syringe nose, flick-birr
of wings, blur
of invisible air.
A tongue and a taste
the one and the other
a claustrophobe’s panic
no quivering, now calm.