by Van K. Brock
A dead rabbit by the roadside,
Sunlight turning his ears to rose
petals.
A new electric fence,
It's five barbed wires tight
as a steel-stringed banjo.
The feet of a fat dove
High on a black line
Throbbing to the hum
Of a thousand waterfalls.
A flock of egrets in a field of cows.
Three Great Blue Herons like
hunchbacked
pelicans in a watering pond.
The red leaves of a bush
Burning inside me.
A swamp holding it's breath.
I really, really enjoy this poem. The list that Brock has constructed has it's topics related through their soundless beauty. There is almost a majesty in each topic that Brock has chosen to consider. The poem itself is a prime example of a list poem. All of the images have a feeling of nature surrounding them and personally I feel a great deal of prime imagery is included with this poem.
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