measures

inches from the finches on your backyard chain link fence

you may wonder if they blunder with their brightness and intents

but they measure with their pleasured procreation and a sense

of fulfillingly and willingly made scenes from yore to thence.

..

in the yard a scarlet cardinal makes wind with swoop and rise

in his belly is a jelly of his hunting enterprise

not a bishop nor the pope but hopes he reaches heaven’s skies

and the symphony and tympani that measure far and wise.