one feather
fluttered, weightless
to the basement of the world
the unnoticed
looked at the non-existent, to-
gether they gathered the fluff
without containers
the bird of heaven
warped in the cold
shrugged and flew on
another down feather
precipitated, carried
by wind and gravity
down, a-down, a-downity-down
to the invisible people
at the basement of the world
wrapping themselves
without containers
