A Bird and its Haiku

Last year I made an accordion-style artist's book called "16 Ways of Looking At a Blackbird" (with apologies to Wallace Stevens for title theft...) that paired collage and poetry.  Each collage picture included the image of a bird and I wrote a haiku for each picture.  Across the tops of the pages I cut a "scrolling" scene of birds, reeds, grasses, etc. Here's the poem for the picture you see above:

Milady looks through

and sees the absence of love.

It’s the price she pays.