Olivier, you sure know how to prioritize. It all starts with two sides of a different coin. Most people just start by counting the seven parts. People often don’t realize that there are precisely two options and also an uncountable multitude of others. The poet must also count to four (or the local equivalent of four which ranges from two to six). The square root of the negative one is also classically included, but may be subsumed into the other birds. Frankly, I don’t know the birds, either, Olivier, but I can look them up in a book of images. There is an importance of using only pages of this book, but the poet can make up his own book and take pages from that. To borrow a page from your book, let’s both get on the same page. Of course, the true and only key to using the book to decipher what this really means is the je ne sais quoi of après moi, le déluge.
a broken lark
cupped in my hands
the Pleiades
Editor’s note: Sept haïkaï — esquisses japonaises (Seven Haiku: Japanese Sketches) and it is a composition for piano by Olivier Messiaen. The set of Sept haïkaï was composed by Messiaen in 1962. The work is composed of seven movements. The seven haiku are arranged symmetrically: I and VII constitute the introduction and coda (conclusion) respectively, II, III, V and VI represent sound pictures of places (Nara Park, Yamanaka, Miyajima and Karuizawa) of Japan Messiaen had visited. The central movement ,IV th movement, represents the sounds of Indian rhythms, Gagaku, the music of the Noh theatre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sept_haikai
je ne sais quoi of après moi, le deluge in French means ‘I do not know what happens after one is gone.’