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American Falls - Greg Keeler
Copyright © 1987 Greg
Keeler
Is the Ouzel Stupid?
Though you've spent
your life practicing,
you still don't seem
to understand
how water works.
You aren't supposed
to bounce
that clear pool
then hop the gravel
bottom of the
fastet current
like a robin on
a courthouse lawn --
or flit back
to your rock
and dip like a fat
boxer at a shadow
without arms.
Birds don't work
that way.
Jesus, nothing works
that way.
I'd sooner believe
a small gray
meatloaf
had paddled
the Mississippi to
the Continental Divide.
Bring me my Polaroids.
Bring me
the God damned
bird book. |
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