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Simmons B. Buntin
Bosque
Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico
January 1, 2009
Not the riotous snow geese or the cyclone
of tungsten wings beneath the dawn's red rise.
Not the silent teals drawn like musical notes
across the vellum of the marsh.
Not even the scarlet-capped cranes slowly rowing
above copper hills. Rather, my daughters,
bundled in bright plumage on the observation deck
-the unfathomable water glazed in blue ice, the ruby
woods distant and luring-their own capped heads
and arms lifted skyward, and rising.
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