Monday, January 18, 2010

Evolution

Her body becomes
rain cool as
autumn through which
grackles and ravens
fly   their dark wings
beating in her
blood   she trades her
youthful  silks for
rags  of velvet,
satin, for bedraggled
feathers   the
patchwork plumage
of winter starlings
who ride the wind
into open sky.


(c)Serena Fusek          2004

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