Watching Nature Access Architecture Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Watching as a pigeon flies into the courtyard between four
walls of a hospital landing on a ledge for a moment, then
flying downwards and away from sight.

Two birds alight upon the same ledge, seeming to be lovers,
primping and preening one another, then too, flying away,
a huge cylindrical column standing in front of another.

A rectangular one in front of this poet's hospital window,
just an edge of it being seen, all of a sudden a pigeon,
wings back, goes dive-bombing straight down like a bullet.

Quickly out of sight, all now quiet in the upper area of the
courtyard, as the sun is still shining upon the upper edges
of the four walls.

Somehow seeming to hold the sun in loving arms of the build-
ing's architecture of this hospital, watching tiredly as the
sun disappears silently into the darkness of night.