Red Sparowes

We Stood Transfixed in Blank Devotion as Our Leader Spoke to Us, Looking Down on Our Mute Faces with a Great, Raging, and Unseeing Eye

And by Our Own Hand Did Every Last Bird Lie Silent in Their Puddles, the Air Barren of Song as the Clouds Drifted Away. For Killing Their Greatest Enemy, the Locusts Noisily Thanked Us and Turned Their Jaws Toward Our Crops, Swallowing Our Greed Whole

Alone and Unaware, the Landscape Was Transformed in Front of Our Eyes

Buildings Began to Stretch Wide Across the Sky, and the Air Filled with a Reddish Glow

The Soundless Dawn Came Alive as Cities Began to Mark the Horizon

Mechanical Sounds Cascaded Through the City Walls and Everyone Reveled in Their Ignorance