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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