The Woodpecker

Photo: (c) Jamie K. Reaser

The world needs drummers,

And hollow trees

need to speak of the lives

they have lived.

Listen carefully

for the pause,

that faint collection of seconds when the

resistant insect is extracted and swallowed…

just before the story begins again,

and Death smiles at his own cleverness.

© 2012-2013/Jamie K. Reaser 
Published in "Wild Life: New and Selected Poems" (www.hiraethpress.com)

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