Library Birdcalls
during a break my coworker demonstrates a birdcall app on his iPad mountainous lockers loom in the distance bulletin board papers dance like leaves in the air conditioner’s breeze
his iPad burbles like a startled barred owl it burbles again my dangling lanyard is a fleeing mouse that shakes with my laughter
his iPad emits a serious screech that plummets into a chuckle and the refrigerator mocks it with a groan and a clink as it births another ice cube
even after returning to work I hear birdcalls in the jingle of change as a lady digs through her pocketbook the elevator’s sing sing when it takes off computer keys hurriedly clacking messages
flocks of fingers stroke the spines of books when the pages flutter open the reader takes flight