Catching Conspicuous Emptiness

My intimates; heron and loon
Were worthier than me at first Light.

Heron's stilts poled him
over fast water.
Loon fell into the Prussian hours of her prey.

Heron ascended on overwhelming wings
toward farther parts of the stream.

Loon glanced above
water's stretched surface,
to dive and dive again

at dilatory sunfish.
Catching conspicuous emptiness,
I was cast to the winds
beside ebbing foam.

Copyright © Marc Awodey

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