From the book The Immediate and No Sooner, published in 2021.
Tanka 192
8/31/20
The soft hollow knock.
The unseen whose mark it is.
The branch that betrays
no hint. The tree standing mute
in rain. The bird that flies out.
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Claudia McGill Writes Poetry, Did You Know That? 
Hehe! The imagination runs wild!
I don’t know what happens next but it’s going to be spooky!
I enjoy observing the interaction between birds and trees. This poem makes me think that a woodpecker came knocking on a tree where another bird was nesting in a hollow and it came out to answer the “door”.
And what happens next?! Hmmmm….you know how it goes When you answer the door in situations like this.