Could you tell me how many birds

You saw from the ground?

You saw in a dream?

You saw? You see?

Could you tell me

How many dreams

You saw in a bird?

Now bare your teeth,

Your barren teeth!

Fewer than two? Than three? Than ten?

Did you keep them all?

Every one?

Have you flown

Just to fly?

Have you leaped

From the redwood trees?

Tell me how many

Dreams you need to know.