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Haiku
Starling snatches
wriggling worm
Sunrise
Bagging leaves and brush
Ladybug leaps
and glides
Shan-zi
Chlorophyll’s Fading
In the branches,
Autumn orioles
Leaves turning yellow,
brown and scarlet
Cardinals come,
join them in song:
The music of trees
Andreas Gripp is
the innovator of the Shan-zi form featured in the October, 2006
Sketchbook.
Free Verse
The Decoy,
or Why no one takes me hunting anymore
My hunter friend,
the one I haven’t converted
to my “animals-have-
feelings-too”
frame of mind,
uses a wooden decoy
in attempts to lure some ducks,
the painted, smiling duplicate
successful in its duty:
three already shot today,
bagged and ready to carve.
If objects
had living souls,
I wonder how it would feel:
a traitor,
causing the death
of what it mimics,
floating on water
like a wannabe bird,
pretending it could fly
if it wanted to,
have its pick
of choicest mates;
like Pinocchio,
wishing to be turned
into the real thing,
for its rifle-bearing Gepetto
to make it flesh and bone,
allow a brook of blood to pump
throughout its winding veins,
pray it might even bring salvation
to this hunter’s calloused heart,
spot a chance
at its own redemption,
have its maker
see its feathered shape
as something
more than food.
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