cw: none

It learned how to use wings to fold origami
out of thick paper.
The canary doesn’t remember how it first learned,
just that it knew
that somehow, it needed to be useful.

Now, it writes its own words onto parchment
made out of thick black ink,
pressed from berries by its own feet.
And then it folds the papers up into something beautiful:
it is a mimicry of what other things
the canary sees.