Whistles

Two notes: never heard a wolf whistle.

Any more than I heard a pierced-beak blackbird

trill a five note arpeggio.

Train whistle

“All aboard!

Morningtown

next stop.”

Playground whistle,

playtime over

school is in.

One long note -never heard the factory whistle;

never worked on a production line,

never worked to rule.

There are no bells

or whistles, on us

- we underlings

are the basic model.

There’s a whistle

we all expect

- sooner or later -

and it signals

the end of the game.

Maybe there’s an echo

of the time

you whistled down the wind.