Heron.(Poem)

From: The Southern Review | Date: June 22, 2001| Author: | Copyright information 
   That drought summer the lake hung low. 
   Once-sunken stumps hugged 
   their shadows as we watched 
   a heron, across the water, articulate itself 
   in grave, measured strides, to where 
   a turtle slept on a log. The heron bowed 
   its fluent neck, its clever beak 
   nudged the turtle--slap into the lake! 
   In the story I wanted to tell, 
   the turtle was me, the water 
   that unreadable depth I feared, 
   and the heron, the heron was love. 
 
   Something underwater we couldn't see 
   moved the heron 
   to thrust--a frantic foot-long fish 
   speared on its beak. ...

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