Thursday, July 16, 2009

BLACK AND WHITE

Driving past,
I caught a glimpse of you
dressed
in your black and white.

Having seen your kind
many times before,
I'm not sure why I turned back.

But there I found myself
Standing,
on the bridge,
in my dress of black and white
watching you
in your back and white.

You perched
on the edge of a stump
in the middle of the creek,
talons pressed down to hold
as beak tore into fish flesh.

With lifted head, you gulped--
And spotted me.

I wonder what caught your attention.
I was still, wrapped in silence.
Was it the black and white?
Did you think I was Eagle, too?

Robin L. Edenshaw
October 1, 2007




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