This is a revised sub and many thanks to people. Jim, Tammara, Rosalind and
Barbara for excellent help and suggestions. The name is now Antipathy having
previously been untitled. Thanks to Ros on this.
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ANTIPATHY
What can you do
with a broken wing?
You can still swim -
though also know
this is it until you die.
An inborn instinct
exists in your will
to accept a sudden
change in circumstances.
Others of your kind
have left you alone
are all together in the flock
over on the marsh grass -
sit or stand or forage
about while you remain
with a useless wing by the waterline -
swim across the river
as if for the comfort of being alone.
You join a couple of strays
on the other side -
root among seaweed - know you must
carry on and eat
live a little longer
though in the quietness
of the river, under its winter sunlight
the odds grow steadily aginst
survival beyond today.
bw
James
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