A Murmuration of Starlings

                           

Starlings swarming,

flashing inward, ballooning outward,

spiralling, spilling silver-bellied,
undulating darkness and luminescence,

rolling white underside upwards,

spooling, imploding, swallowing, exploding,

millioning out over the roofs, ribboning up,

each a light bulb switching, flicking,

flickering into unison, condensing into a score,
a billowing script,

a symphony inscribing itself across the heavens.