Birds Are Quixotic, Too!

Birds.

Yeah, so I'm not
one of those people
who looks at nature
to learn esoteric
facts (fascinating
though they can
sometimes be),
but rather...
to look at nature.

I look at a bird
not to wish I
could fly quite
so independently
and free, but
to see the wonder
of it, the...
otherness of it,
to appreciate
that a bird is.

Sometimes, it seems
they're looking
at me, too.