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Lake Morning in Autumn
Douglas Livingstone
Stanza 1
Before sunrise the stork was thereresting the pillow of his bodyon stick legs growing from the water.
Stanza 2
A flickering gust of pencil-slanted rainswept over the chill autumn morning;and he, too tired to arrange
Stanza 3
his wind-buffeted plumage,perches swaying a little,neck flattened, ruminative,
Stanza 4
beak on chest, contemplative eyefilmy with star vistas and hollowblack migratory leagues, strangely,
Stanza 5
ponderously alone and some weeksearly. The dawn struck and everything,sky, water, bird, reeds
Stanza 6
was blood and gold. He sighed.Stretching his wings he clubbedthe air; slowly, regally, so very tired,
Stanza 7
aiming his beak he carefully climbedinclining to his invisible tunnel of sky,his feet trailing a long, long time.