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The Flight of the Pig
The Flight of the Pig
Copyright © September 2, 2018 by Douglas W. Jerving.
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Written after seeing a seagull riding a pig
swimming for a distant shore.
Birds fly and swim and pigs
Drown in dreams of lift-off.
Threats of wolves and coyotes
Like taxers at the door
Insist he take his leave.
The sky is o-cyan above
A sea seen sawn horizon.
Fish fly and return fine
To the ocean thick sky;
Gulls dive the deep for them
But never find a pig.
Pig swims the gull upon
His shoulder to the shore
Like wing’ed Samothrace;
A cupid without arms:
No bow to set blades place.
Pig sees the shore ahead
Of him to which he flies
But his gull wings away
So he is left to die
Or swim his common might,
No longer as a god,
The other side. A pig
Is not allowed to fly.
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