cormorants swarm the pond, heads held high, arrogant?
no, their necks grow long to swallow fish, replenish
lungs with air, their feet invisible stroke stroke, propel
the birds forward & round, concentric rings of cormorants
trouble the fish, fish flee, birds dive, of hundreds of fish
some are eaten, overhead round & round the pelicans
gaze down, tilt & plummet & plash, more fish are eaten
herons & egrets swarm the shoreline, fish on the run
are eaten — fry, fingerlings, full grown — the pond
a field, the herd the mingled gleaners, fish are grass
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