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Song of the Orange Butterfly, In-Between Shores

29 Sunday Jul 2018

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Butterflies, Butterfly, Columbia River, Death, Life, mud swallows, Poem, Poems, Poetry, River, Rivers, Swallows, transformation

I am sun off water,

spirit, which takes form

Through transformation.

Metamorphosis:

Lowest belly creature,

To this fairytale life.

Yet, I am lost,

Somehow wandered

Between safe shores.

Water everywhere.

And the mud swallows,

Who make their nests

In the river banks,

Desperate for me.

You see, a pretty thing

Can suffer, too:

Frantic beating of wing.

In this short life,

I will both sing,

And cease to be.

The Barn Swallows, Drowned In the Trough

29 Wednesday Jul 2015

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Barn Swallows, Bird Drowning, Birds, Death, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Spiders, Swallows

I can’t bring death to a world

Where everything dies.

Not even a spider in the front eve,

Its shadow, at night, a good five inches.

It scares the hell out of me,

But how can I fault her,

For dropping down, thread by thread,

And spinning her web.

I can’t add her death

To a world where everything dies.

And yet, I pulled two dead barn swallows

From the galvanized trough by the barn.

I regret, the shallow Victorian bird bath

I wouldn’t purchase, for fear

I’d lure the precious birds to our cat.

Despite trying to avoid bringing death,

It came anyway,

To a world where everything dies.

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