2020-1106-Great blue heron fishing (EXPLORE: 2020-11-11)

            - the seasons shift, like truest friendship; like heron, constant, however remote - 

While half-looking for images of “remote” in the last few days, this great blue heron appeared like a mirage, in a pocket of a place, poised at the edge of a pond. Remoteness in place and species. I was as still as could be for the hour I watched, which doesn't compare with the stillness of a fishing heron. Just now, a few days later, about to post, did this poem arise, by my late friend – a different form of remoteness. This whole erratic season was built for you, brother. You would’ve relished the downs and ups. Wish we could croon together over Mu into the night, on the edge. 

BLACK MARSH ECLOGUE
by Sam Hamill

Although it is midsummer, the great blue heron
holds darkest winter in his hunched shoulders,
those blue-turning-gray clouds
rising over him like a storm from the Pacific.
He stands in the black marsh
more monument than bird, a wizened prophet
returned from a vanished mythology.
He watches the hearts of things
and does not move or speak. But when
at last he flies, his great wings
cover the darkening sky, and slowly,
as though praying, he lifts, almost motionless,
as he pushes the world away.

From A Dragon in the Clouds (Broken Moon Press, 1989). Copyright © 1989 by Sam Hamill. Used with the permission of Eron Hamill.

   

Taken on: November 6, 2020

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