More Sky Please

More sky please push open the apartment shutters

crowbar the paint factory’s broken window frames rip

tar paper from the caving roof push it back crack it open

blast an airshaft through the neighboring buildings snap

it back expose the bird-ridden drafts the wren’s been busy

here mornings year-round churr and chip golden open-throat

yodel smack in the sleep cycle soldered to feeder suet

in ivy like titmouse chickadee refusing to shift it back

Carolina Canada climate haywire more sky please rik tik tik

break open more light all the way past oil tank farms

creosote docks the Kill Van Kull slide by kingfisher flap

past cormorant incongruous flights parallel and merging

plunge into slap out of tidal pools the Fresh Kills beak

full of killifish and silversides crayfish and krill tarp

past the salt grass and bridges fly Pulaski Skyway

Bayonne’s silver buildings blank tower blocks sky

wide as the river mouth more sky more please push it back

past tankers and tugboats the last hulking cruise ship

lasers fired across a spinning disco ball wobble bass

and echo chamber dancing on deck past clanging buoys

waveless channels to deepest basin all things even

terns drop away sea and sky opened wide and empty