Watercolor of Two Cranes
Unhinge your landing gear
in shallow shoals. Scissor
air, wings warning,
webbed feet dredged in silt
deep as time, iris tilted
skyward, a ringed target
of defiance. You’re still
all pterodactyl beneath
those pewter feathers damp
as fog. Not even Audubon
with palette and brush
was able to wrest you
from flight. Persistence
is nature; to fly, to fight.
Marc Alan Di Martino is a Pushcart-nominated poet and author of the collection Unburial (Kelsay Books, 2019). His work appears in Rattle, Baltimore Review, Palette Poetry, Rivet and many other journals and anthologies. His second collection, Still Life with City, is forthcoming from Pski's Porch in 2020. He lives in Italy.
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