[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Poem
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 15:41:45 -0700
Written Last Sunday (approx)
When mosquitos fly in the Sierras, they
do an up-and-down dance that I, risking bites,
will now try to paint, al fresco, as it were.
Not Irish quite, or Scotch hopping in great clans,
or the balletic leaps done in Spanish bullfights,
to shove in spikes on sticks,
that pinion and rip,
reducing the bull,
to agony, puff and drool...,
but definitely prancing that has a dash of menace within.
The rare bad case of West Nile Virus up their sleeve,
causes these beasts briefly achieve a primo dance-of-death grace,
but blink and they're again reduced to mere irritants,
out to prove delusions
about the grandeur of nature.
David Ritchie
Portland, Oregon
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