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Birds Walking.(Poem)

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| March 01, 2004 | Fisher, Barbara | COPYRIGHT 2004 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

 
BIRDS WALKING 
 
   Who would think the pelican 
   with his lumbering gait on land 
   could lift his great body, 
   wheel the air so suavely, 
   and touch down 
   like a Sunderland, 
   pluming foam, 
   perfectly graceful? 
 
   Or consider gulls. Such designer birds 
   with their grey and white, 
   their black-tipped tails, 
   red legs scissor-snipping 
   a  cross the sand 
   in that sort of run 
   that makes me think 
   of women in narrow skirts 
   hurrying for a ...

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