A Woman Complete

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Electricity
brightens cities,
dims galaxies.

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Imagine being an Olympic athlete,
fast, buff, muscled and sleek.

Yellow swallowtail plays a toccata
gracefully feeding on pink monarda.

Bluebirds on the wire,
once endangered, nearly extinct,
feed on fat angleworms.

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Goldfinches alight
on flower heads to eat seeds
and pluck green petals.

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Cages are for beasts,
not for chickens that ruffle
feathers and peck the ground.

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Wind ripples water,
water moves rock, rock slides down
crushing the town. Silence.

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8 turkey vultures
circle the golf course, rising
high in the blue sky.

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