Cormorant

dedicated to the memory of Seamus Heaney

So often I have seen the S of the neck

 the black majesty of its poise

steady on a post or other construct

the glossy outline affirming estuary’s flow

its inky darkness almost two dimensional,

rock-still, so that even though I stand and wait,

willing the cormorant to move,

it outwits me with its accepta...

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