stilled kookaburra with blood beak
did s/he meet glass ceiling windscreen?
stop eye/pick him/her up
wrap in blanket as in shock(warmth is love-
proceed to happy hippy land where my puppy tent
held two-one with wings,me feeding him/her
(i do not know what birds eat-snakes yes
this jackass was not laughing/his/her beak shattered
by intransigent forces(gravity,logic,weight,acceleration)
i fed her/him grass,meat,whatever i could gather
Wings come from a sacred world-this visitor of soul
was teaching me vulnerabilities and trust.
I wrapped her/him in my blue blanket
arose morning light to find s/he flown.Freed,
i left for home-with new wings
2
Kangaroo,hit by road convoy,curled,dying
Shudders waved through her /his furred flesh
I sat next as to a dying dolphin.Looked into her/his eyes
Saw thought die.One star .Black night.Stillness
All the rest was noise and damaged cars.Like death of leaping deer
swift had been this collision between the living
and what carried motion sans negotiation.
I never saw her/his leap-only last gasp when breath left
a broken body to be cleared from progress
a final chapter in the Great Leap Forward.
3.
Rescue he-largely dolphins,whales
disoriented,come to beach and die.Looks into their eyes
asking for life.Cries when eyes close/knows
choice is only time over loss.Still brings water
to wash whales back into river.Oceans we came from
disgorge cetaceans.We,now mammalian,reptilian
witness our lost origins.
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