Sunday, January 23, 2011

Impact and Encounter

by George Hartley

Given shank and waterfowl
beasted into heaven’s fine striations
as metal basket slingshots skyward
catches soft and downy frame
skeleton and shatter
smack composition
twisted into purple spray

Salt sweet divination
right place
right moment
arcade fire of coincidence

and now the pumping heart
drifting instinct
mechanical array
gives birth to sun’s red and rocking
blanket over wave-spun water

This encounter
and a sudden pelican darkness
blossoming on the shore.

June 8, 2006

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