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Metamorphosis

Sandy Longley

Act I
From a distance they looked like
two Glad trash bags
billowing in the April dusk,
a plastic adagio.
But when I walked closer
I could see

Act II
those small turkey heads,
long, fan-shaped tails,
glossy, bronze wings dragging,
dark, rufous, feathery tips,
a prince-like display, the male
strutting his comic brio,
wattles ablaze like pieces of the heart,
an offering.

And the hen, dreaming of poults,
yelping in response to the call
of her polygamous lover,
a sudden ballon skyward on her
scrawny legs before the
destined coupling.

Act III
No evil sorcerer,
no promise of fidelity,
no Lake of Tears -
instead a grayblack disappearing act
into open fields,
all eyes on the roost,
stage left.

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