Nightingale

Muse of musicians and poets

whose song is taken to be

song itself, how is it

such melody

originates in a creature

whose name, read word for word,

is a hard time to weather

for any bird?

What does the shutters' rattling,

what does the night wind's wail

have to do with your music,

night in gale ?

By what Hermetic method

is a nocturnal storm

incorporated into

your twilit form;

by what unconscious measure

tuned to the song that I

am here in hopes of hearing

by and by?