A s I s

Through my cabin window,
a wing-flash of white,
an iridescent tail.
A Magpie alights
with a bounce!

Glossy-black head,
crown feathers
     stick
        skyward,
            mussed up -
out of place. Only three,
     maybe four.

Couldn't
     tell
         precisely.

Bothersome.

I wonder why those
      so few
          feathers
      catch my eye?

The bird is
      such a gem -
           as
              is.

The cabin's window glass
      mirrors my wizened
           mane with it's
      thin hair.
Strands of white,
      lying mostly smooth.
A persistent few,
      disheveled -
            not
                perfect.
                                                                            NOTES:    Begun while at Denali National Park and
That's it -                                                                                completed the following day. We saw a
      the bird is                                                                         spectacular rainbow on our way to
           me!                                                                             Anchorage.
                                                                                                                       -Clem J. Nagel  8/25/2006
Who, I pray,
      ever looked upon a
           partial rainbow
               and thought -
YUCK!
      What an
           ugly
                 sight.