Two Bumps on Logs
...A seagull and anhinga sit
On logs next to the pier,
Perhaps preparing for a meal,
For fish are likely here.
They do a little grooming, but
They mostly seem to sit,
Though the anhinga opens up...
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Categories:
anhinga, bird, river,
Form: Rhyme
Low Sun Over Home Waters
...Nets are hauled and homeward go the shrimp boats
rolling slow and easy on a sunset path,
their droning engines chugging
over a rippling seafoam.
In the mangrove swamp
an egret sets its white s...
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Categories:
anhinga, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Once Upon a Scummy Pond
...A skinny black girl, her torso submerged,
long neck holding her head up like a swimming Anhinga.
I should not know what a ‘snakebird’ is --- I am eleven years old
and have lived in the same dirt...
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Categories:
anhinga, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Cypress Nights
...Dusk wades in.
Anhinga necks stir shadows.
A humid nightfall laps Cypress knee’s.
where unseen eddy’s bubble and swirl.
Florida evaporates at its lakeshores
where nocturnal-fevers simm...
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Categories:
anhinga, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Midwest Nest
...Here in my suburban acre of Ohio;
I feel the generations,
the hungarians, the irish and germans,
the dutch, the blacks, the shawnee.
We are not a melting pot,
we are birds and critters brought h...
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Categories:
anhinga, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Margin
...The sun will rise like a golden fish
over the far bank,
but for now
a cobwebbed sky
clings to the curling water.
This is the margin
where dawn issues
through nights last gleams
its first gh...
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Categories:
anhinga, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Cypress Evening
...Cypress ‘knee's’ lap in the light
as dusk wades in.
Evening parachutes down,
it plants shallow pother
around ankle-deep trunks.
Anhinga necks stir shadows
under a low moon.
This is the gur...
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Categories:
anhinga, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Pond Reflections
...I'm de-boned, on my back, sun-dazed,
green water slipping under ribs.
I circle a mandala of light behind my eyes.
Pals slip through rings of sparkling sunshine.
Pale limbs dive through slowly s...
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Categories:
anhinga, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Mid-West Nest
...Here in my rented acre of Ohio;
I feel the generations,
the hungarians, the irish and germans,
the dutch, the blacks, the shawnee.
We are not a melting pot,
we are birds and critters brought her...
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Categories:
anhinga, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Not the Cruellest Month
...How can there be despair when the entire
natural world unfolds with new life?
When the anhinga alights from the Nowhere
he was into the Somewhere you are, negotiating
his spectacular landing, ...
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Categories:
anhinga, seasons,
Form: Elegy
The Emperor Bird
...I almost trashed an anhinga in the middle of a street
leading out to the highway from our copycat
barrier island: sibling of another it resides beside,
curling around the end of the Florida coast as ...
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Categories:
anhinga, nature, bird, bird, universe,
Form: Free verse
Anhinga Intake
...Anhinga Intake
Snake-like neck, fish slithering through it-
© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
February 14, 2010
Poetic form: Monuku...
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Categories:
anhinga, animals, nature
Form: Monoku
The Drowning Moment
...is when he of the Mount of Olives
whom you believe keeps the night watch
catches you by surprise with a wash over your spirit
like Baptism, when he suddenly exists "de facto"
as you are walking,...
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Categories:
anhinga, visionary
Form: Free verse