Max
I really like the final stanza; but I’m not sure about the way the thinking into each bird’s experience works, or if it quite does. Maybe it’s the insistence on the ‘as duck I’ or ‘as crow I’ structure…?
Doug
On Sep 2, 2015, at 10:11 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Crow and Duck
>
> The feel of a crow flying
> over water, the feel of a duck
> flying over water - so different.
>
> What do I mean different?
> I knew you’d ask that.
> Watching is mental flight -
>
> as duck I swoop serenely
> above my element, touching
> down when I choose.
>
> As crow I must make it past
> the water - there I go -
> made it to the tree.
>
> My wake widening
> complicates the stillness.
> My perch shudders then stills.
Douglas Barbour
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