Refuge January 1, 2017 The heron unzips itself from sky and the sky falls, grey tatter scattering a dozen bathing pintails where the estuary curves, their wings making it clap. Surprise can be deadly but the heron’s got bigger fish: leg snapped to chest, it lampshades the hungry hours while gangs of coots bumble along the frost-fretted boardwalk, cartoon-harmonic, chatting out the sides of alabaster beaks as if not on the heels of drowning all but the strongest of […]
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