Poem: Eagle Over Lake

 

Eagle Over Lake

 

shadow above aqua,

slow oval, a boomerang slash

of current and sculpture,

 

brutal

 

fang of keen white head,

water the skin, a stray ripple

the jugular.

 

silver of spine

a fish wriggles punctured.

hauled.  gripped.  

 

no reflection,

nothing left

but a wisp within a photo, 

 

unless

sunlight makes contact.

brown flames then.

brown flames and ivory embers.

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