Question on poem Five Flights Up…?

**what exactly is she talking about in this?**

Five Flights Up

Still dark.
The unknown bird sits on his usual branch.
The little dog next door barks in his sleep
inquiringly, just once.
Perhaps in his sleep, too, the bird inquires
once or twice, quavering.
Questionsif that is what they are
answered directly, simply,
day itself.

Enormous morning, ponderous, meticulous;
gray light streaking each bare branch,
each single twig, along one side,
making another tree, of glassy veins…
The bird still sits there. Now he seems to yawn.

The little black dog runs in his yard.
His owners voice arises, stern,
"You ought to be ashamed!"
What has he done?
He bounces cheerfully up and down;
he rushes in circles in the fallen leaves.

Obviously, he has no sense of shame.
He and the bird know everything is answered,
all taken care of,
no need to ask again.
Yesterday brought to today so lightly!
(A yesterday I find almost impossible to lift.)

Best Answer
I suppose the title means the speaker is up with the bird and looking down, as a transcendent observation, spiritual. The questioning is why the dogs owner is yelling at the dog running wild in the leaves, leaves that could have been raked together the dogs owner and its upsetting the owner that his dog is taking the pile apart. One could assume that and why hes yelling. The dog and the bird know why the owner yells and the answered is that its the autumn of the owners nature which is natural and is one with the present autumn. The owner has gotten old and cranky in his fall season of life and nothing to be alarmed about for the dog and bird. All his yesterdays that make his mind old, along with his old weak body, are nearly impossible to lift and bring into the present day, so yelling at his dog is just a slight part of the weight of the past being carried over into the present.