Borrowed Bio
Ange Mlinko
Where we'd recently lain,
exchanging a kiss,
stork consorted1 with crane,
limpkin with ibis.
Was this as much wedding
as there would ever be,
the fowls2' foot-webbing,
the identificatory
ring around a throat?
Exchange of earth and air:
not a vow3 but a vote
of confidence a feather
might tip by a single scale ...
That one's a raconteur4,
so much salt in his tale;
this one's a countertenor,
lilting above the feast.
The archon of his hectare
-- spotted -- spotted least.
Here's a little heckler ...
penciled seagull in the margin5.
Following line by line
the path you took, I imagine
no print so fine.
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