Yeah, great found image, Max. Would love to have seen it...
Doug
On 2012-09-26, at 4:55 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> A pigeon rising on an escalator -lovely!!reminds of those early Chaplin
> films
> p
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Max Richards
> Sent: 26 September 2012 09:20
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: 'pigeon'
>
> A pigeon here! - lost
> in the shopping mall's
> treeless spaces,
> tiled floors, glass walls -
> alights by the cafe crumbs
> at these shoppers' feet.
>
> Call security -
> call a cleaner -
> rescue - liberate.
> A child stalks it
> from behind -
> pouncing
> just too late.
>
> It's alert, mobile,
> iridescent,
> pulsating, plump -
> not worn out
> as I'd expect.
>
> A couple ushers it
> gently towards
> the exit - as if
> pigeons understand
> escalators.
>
> Well! it steps on -
> slowly proceeding
> upwards towards
> the roof top car park -
>
> upwards towards
> freedom on folded wings.
>
Douglas Barbour
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