Kit Kelen #1314 - a swamphen walks the poolfence

1314

a swamphen walks the pool fence

you have to ask yourself

it’s green

(the fence,

I mean)

the hen is duck blue iridescent

here and there, darker too

and snow white arse end

beak of red and leg

I’m searching for a reason

for the highwire act

don’t have a picture

you’ll just have to take my word

it’s nothing fearless

but knows she’s watched

(or he [I don’t know

how to tell])

why up on this stage lit

on the off chance?

and with this this murky name

to puzzle, s/he fumbles

before the end of the poem

stumbles, not quite falls, so

I see it’s just for the colour

to be in the moment like this