Letra de Estuary

Noisy wide-eyed kids
Raced around a christmas tree
And skiis packed
On a roof of cars
Over impatient drivers
Repetition prolongs the strength of allusion
And arched pro forms
Diminish
Becoming frail and silent
And to the appearance
Of a lone ocean bird
Skimming over the choppy waters
Earily eyeing after anchovies
And occasionally glancing
At the people who had come to me at the beach
On a winter's solstace
I watch this bird in flight
Using the wind
Against the wind
The bird hovered motionlessly
And admittedly adjusting
Both his body and wings
Self possessed
Caught the current of a strong wind
Herding in a long half-circle
Slowly at first
And then picking up speed
As a straightened upon
The invisible coarse
The solitary bird flew
Far from my sight
Yet within an image
Had reshaped into an
Empowered vision
Disturbing event surroundings
Resembling great
Aloneness
Between two rocks
I picked up an empty shell
Of a brown and cree cory
That had probably been washed ashore
From some earlier storm
I listen to the not-so-far memories of you
Through the shell and also tasted
Semi-sweet berries
Remembered from childhood