Anhinga Poems - Poems about Anhinga

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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, ......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

...Anhinga Intake Snake-like neck, fish slithering through it- © Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen February 14, 2010 Poetic form: Monuku......Read the rest...

...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,......Read the rest...