Pelicans and gulls follow these fishing fleets… <br /> <br />“Think before you cast <br />Me into that cerulean sea”, she cried… <br /> <br />Cardinals build nests in thorny places <br />Even that slippery black snake <br />Would know this is not <br />A place to go <br /> <br />Alligators climb garden gates <br />In hopes of <br />A short cut to lover’s lane <br />And always searching for a spring date… <br /> <br />Even that young bear <br />Suns himself <br />On the knoll above <br />My homestead ~ hollow <br /> <br />Drunken hummers <br />Feast on <br />Reddened plastic trumpets <br /> <br />Winter’s rabbits <br />Fattened on <br />Newly planted endive <br />Give exercise to that coyote <br />Out in the cedars <br /> <br />And eagles fly high <br />Above that mountainous English lady <br />Riding those currents <br />Of truth, love and hope <br /> <br />Surely, you see something of humanity<br /><br />Debora Short<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/and-still-eagles-fly-high/
