By Steven Hind, of Kansas.
Great Blue Heron
By Steven Hind
Behind the pond under a whispering
scarf of willows, heron does his lone
knifewalk beside the wind-fretted waters.
His deft movements make a death
defying progress: a life of mud transmuted
into sky life as he rows away on a river
of air and its melody of coyote song
through cedars beyond cedars, their
silhouettes swallowed by darkness
beneath the bright gravel of stars.
Kit Stolz 