gray egret with head perpendicular to body
standing as stiff as a driftwood branch on rock
Han ripples white-crested splashing around him
grey egret, flys, skirts mist to further up
one gray egret like a black-sheep bird
wonders not why it's not lily-white
missed its chance to mate in flight
yesterday when egrets played
hop-scotching chasing dames away
in time for nests of rice stalks slashed
in clear-burned paddies nestling down
potatos growing in the ground
stedfast gray egret beyond the river-ocean
strange gray egret beyond familiar notion
can forget the narrow-minded egret
and then he sees one atop a mild breeze
float and sail through the wind
float and sail through and through the wind
spread those wide wings sail wide and wide
10-18-13
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