Occasional Impressions

The Gemini Poets

That is a fulmar...

[For the Revd Brian Hebblethwaite (who said on
receiving it that it had been post-rationalized)]

“That is a fulmar; that a cormorant.“
Why should I look?
I know they’re birds
      or rare or interesting.
In fact, I know they’ll flyaway.
(No, that's true, too, they could have never come)
      (like me!)

Why should I look -
As if I did not trust the general fairness
      but must
      keep on
      checking
            up.
(No, never do we learn
      but - nearly - sometime know)
emn - mar 1972

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