Sunday, October 16, 2011

Ducks Take to Water


image borrowed from tess kincaid

Ducks Take to Water


They float
but never stray

rubberneck
with a certain naïveté

dry on the surface
as if they don't belong

I'd love to hold one
under the shallow

their showy
feathers mat down

until they are rat-like
as a drowned cat

I never was one
to begin with




Tess Kincaid
October, 2011


Posted over on her site Life at Willow Manor
Listed as #1 over on Magpie Tales 87

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