It's a good description of the ducks again, James, but perhaps rather a
fragment - to be taken somewhere else, or included somewhere else?
bw
SallyE
on 23/11/02 3:14 pm, James Bell at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> A rough cut from the note book. C&C welcome .
>
> PROCESSION
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> By some tacit agreement they all
> silently move in procession
> from shoreline up the mudbank
> and loosely congregate round
> and old mooring post among
> the marrum (spelt wrong) grass
> an evangelical gathering of
> white breasts and black heads
> a uniformly dressed priesthood
> that then stands still and waits
> for who knows what in quiet communion
> while only a stray honk of dissent
> breaks the hush as the wind blows
> in off the estuary
>
> even the slow body waddle and plod
> of large webbed feet up the bank
> is freeze framed - only the trickle
> of low tide water not joined in the effect
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> bw
> James
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