Day 123
May 3, 2022
Not Jasper




I spent an hour photographing one heron with the 500 lens.







Male mallard content in this

one space of new green shoots.

Red winged black bird cleans debris from

water soaked reeds.

Heron stays patient just off to the right,

long standing silence,

small movements

tell long stories

provide answers

to the wheres and the wherefores.

No sun glistening

            no winds blowing;

            small fish.

            Only the red winged

            chatters in the quiet solace.

These small gentle movements

            burrow into my gut

            digging deeper

            embroidering my loneliness,

caught between content and contempt.

 

What is it I want

            to fill that bored hole?

            What is it I yearn for, desire?

What makes that small pinpoint

            quake?

All last week I watched

            hundreds of swallows patrol

            the water’s surface.

Today the fish have no competition

            for an insect fest.

Today movement tells a different story.

 







 

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