Abstract Photograph
Just off the trail
A snag full of holes
How many woodpeckers
Have drilled how many times
Bark beetles scurry
Relentless beak poking
Each loud tap goes deeper
Red headed bird tilts and digs
Bug eats tree
Bird eats bug
Human observes cavities
Ponders his own fate
What if I was that bird
What if I was that bug
With camera lowered
Boots crunch leaves and walk away
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I love the simple beautiful question of this poem
Lovely! I love the Zen simplicity of this. It
works.
Love: “What if I was that bird
What if I was that bug
With camera lowered
Boots crunch leaves and walk away”
Being in nature brings out the philosopher in you, Larry. Not to mention the poet.
I absolutely love how this starts up close and then zooms further and further in, but away from the grounded image of the woodpecker and the tree and moving toward that philosophical mode of thought.