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Shorebirds
by Debby Topliff on Apr 23, 09 • no comments • Share This
Where’s Woody?
Gulf Shores
Osprey flapping furiously
Mate and chicks hungry at home
He hovers, dives, comes up wet
Empty handed
Shakes away the spray
As an angry rival swoops
Chases him downwind
Pelican wafts, threads the waves
Into a shoreline beeline
Fingertips dipping the salty mix
Seagulls sprint and glide
Two black-tipped ibis scoot past the commotion
Hurrying to the coquina cafeteria
Opening at low tide
A pileated woodpecker clings to a palm
Battering last year’s fronds
For ants and beetle larvae
Is this the hammerer on my metal chimney?
The whispering chirper above my hearth?
Willets screech into the wind
As sanderlings skirt the froth
Crisscrossed crab prints
Divulge their nighttime doors
While I relinquish winter coat
Winter work
Winter worries
And sink deeper onto the trillion googleplex
Of sun-drenched specks
Wave-beaten grains
Star-numbered promises
Of sand
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