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    Libby Bernardin

     

    Like Wings

    Sprinting over un-furrowed rows,
    thick with old field toad flax—
    a doe, bounding
    through air, sun bright
    on her taut brown coat,
    legs elongating like wings,
    as she leaps over the road
    in front of my speeding car,
    so close I saw life in her eye—
    awed by beauty’s black flint,
    tawny in her breeding velvet,
    her sure, elegant leap at the exact second—
    my held breath released, accepting the blessing.

     
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