Ranch Tour
Read some Fine poems here.
On a ranch tour today, I learned that vetch is a good forb; a lek site is the intimacy room of the sage grouse; a golden eagle will kill a sheep, lug it thirty feet in the air to its nest, and eat it; the residency foundation is trying to get federal designation as an Important Bird Area (I.B.A.); and antelope run seventy miles an hour.
The picture above is of the creek (crik) behind my studio. Storm's a comin'.
I'll give you a buck if you write a poem or short short (Clem!) entitled "Important Bird Area."
posted by Wanda Ball at 4:26 PM
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IMPORTANT BIRD AREA
A rustling margin:
At the margin of a dream, birds
mind you.
You take something down from the shelf and cry.
Other people have dreams with Symbols.
The dog is like the love,
a yellow haired doll like fear.
But birds are birds for you, lines across sky.
Under the pine bush,
you count population.
Gutters equal aqueducts and
fire escapes forums?
There’s no rush
rain lake on flat roof next door.
Tense, rippled, light strange tongues
through virga.
Anterior to these walls.
Who needs a metapor map of
important bird area?
Men cast lines with arcing hooks into a pond
and birds flying by, well –
the feathers fly smooth and intact, high.
--
(Where's my dollar?)
metaphor. i meant metaphor.
--cw
GORGEOUS. For this, I buy you dinner and pie at the Echo!
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