Startled by steps –
that New Balance
bounce – loud as
Boeing jets gliding
through the metallic
clouds of a perfect
aloneness, a blue
heron hides between
two teal wings, folding
and glittering, holding
its eyelids near the
flowing stillness of a
river, bare and abundant.
George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, The Angle at St. John Fisher College, and 3:16 Journal. George’s blogs, essays and letters have appeared in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Havana Times, South China Morning Post, The Buffalo News, and more.
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