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Ring-Billed Gull, 2001, colour print, 24 x 20 in
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‘Land gull,’ my friend says. Evolve backwards,
if you will, abandon the mothering sea,
follow in the chocolate wake of the plow,
forsaking the clean, blue line the keel makes.
Pick worms. Perhaps that is how you acquired
that indelible signature at the bill tip,
from too much probing in the black earth.
I am like that, too, carrying smudge words
at my fingertips. Loafing, waiting
for something to turn up, to swallow it whole.
Photograph by Thaddeus Holownia. Poem by Harry Thurston.
From the catalogue Ova Aves published by Anchorage Press, 2011
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