Thursday, October 24, 2024

Sand pipers oct 9, 2024

  

the sandpipers with their short legs

flee each time a wave comes in

 then hurry back after the receding water

 pecking at the bits of Life

the water uncovers

survival always in this in and out

 no fair or unfair

 no good or bad

 just this perpetual ritual

that allows them to feed

running from the waves

 only to pursue them a moment later

the in and out of it

the hot and cold

 stormy seas or calm

 like being what it is

and has always been

the need to feed

to not get dragged

 into the depths in the process

sandpipers with tiny legs and long beaks

running away and then back

pecking at the editable things

 I cannot see

 but sometimes this is all there is

all we can expect

to feed and not get sucked in

 


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