CB Surf Scoter

the cosco busan

a shipping ship

hit the bridge in the san francisco bay some weeks ago

and — perhaps you’ve heard

hundreds of birds--were oiled

poisoned corroded

bunker fuel’d

well

Monte ran the wash room

and i became a rinser

(convergent volunteers:

flock weep work keep

awake)

hot jet under into each feather

of each bird

dawn cuts grease

later then earlier each day

close up right here

waking dream life

remedies

lack of sleep

steam

bites

feather condition

waterproofing

feet

eyes

lines

death

leakage

slip

buffleheads

surf scoters

the rhinoceros auklet

double crested cormorants

western grebes

clark grebes

eared grebes

horned grebes

the pied billed grebe

common loons

Pacific loons

ruddy ducks

scaup

goldeneyes

common murres

brown pelicans

release

step look fly

home into the world

go!

you ask

how can there be

war business war

when

it takes all you have

to

dare

hold

one wild animal

by the beak