This Morning’s Chorus

This morning’s chorus
was a shambles
Each bird just going for it

No harmonising
no collaboration
no audience awareness
no attention to detail
no Facebook post, no selfies

Just an open-throated and full-bellied
desire to celebrate nothing more
than this day’s dawning

My delighted morning ears
stirred my body
my dreamy night brain fell away
and a wee kiss good morning woke my heart

Having taken strict instructions
from the wayward birds
I rolled out of bed
oblivious to anything expected of me

JANE O’SHEA
from ‘In Your Smallest Pocket’