Wednesday, September 28, 2011

"Mocking Bird"





(c) Steve Ting
I went outside
To have a secret cigarette
Watching summer shower
Pass by

A Mockingbird
On my garden grape arbor
Flashing his
Stripes

White
Black

He ducked his head
Amongst shiny
leaves

Rushing in wet circles
Rubbing one wing
Then another

Black
White

He flew to fence post
Where he preened
Flight feathers

Then he was gone
Like tobacco
Smoke

-Fin-

DS Baker

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