Saturday, December 17, 2016

Election Season

that crow posing
atop that power pole
stares at the western sea
random feathers lift
on horizon’s breath
an onshore breeze
pushing
a marine layer
over blue ice plant,
red poker plants,
and a coastal cypress leaning
drunkenly across ruins
of civilization.

his kind
flew here before people,
pulling clams
with a knife-like beak
from salty wet sand
to scavenge the tide line.


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