The Lapwing

Larking about like Fools
tumbling in an unseen Circus,
lappingwings flappingwings
sloop'n'roll to that jazzy cry

Occasionally my brush
fumbles to the same rhythm
collecting thought the way the lapwing
catches its sustenance in the air.


Charles Olsen Jan 1999. Published in Sr Citizen (Amargord ediciones, 2011)