Tag: nature
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Barn Owl
In Egypt they made you a hieroglyph – no wonder. For you are silent in flight as night pressing on the Nile; and when milky feathers part to show your clandestine mouth, the small shivering prey vanishes into you as quickly, as irrevocably, as a murdered pharaoh, hustled by his vizier to oblivion somewhere in…
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Cleaners of Yggdrasil
I hope the World-Tree (Like all respectable trees) Has woodpeckers. Neither a surfeit nor A lack: Just enough to Tint the vortex with Their scarlet crests. Just enough to Pluck grubs from cracks Between stars And bring them back To a mess of half- Starved chicks. Just enough that A faint tattoo In the middle…
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Sea Pen
This poem was not written with a sea pen which is a shame No doubt it would flow more freely needing no meter except the ocean currents Held to the seabed by thin feet it would eat floating words and grow long long as a man’s forearm All other poems it would call bleached coral…
Thomas R. Keith Poetry 