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Watercolor of Two Cranes

By Marc Alan Di Martino
Spring 2021 | Poetry

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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