the tree falls
almost without a sound
or without enough sound
would be a better way
to say it
the slow leaning
the uprooting
the huge tractor
pushing it over
a bully on a school
playground
to make way for
boxlike houses
not a single bird flies
out of the branches
maybe they abandoned it
long before the heavy
machinery showed up
clever birds
Words and Feathers 
Awesome. So expresses that unmindless way we continue on with our ‘progress.’ The line “or without enough sound” says it so well, our ears deaf to what we should hear, what the “clever birds” know.