Stalk legs in water
stalk neck stretched out
smear of body mirrored beneath.

Still as a painting
brain so small
head is barely visible

like the point end of
a sharpened #2 pencil.
Watchful…

then folds back into
a swan-like form
gliding until

another potential fish
ripples on pond surface
neck stretches back out

…waiting.
No strike yet
nor prepare to fly.

One moment that is all.
I stop for one moment
in the middle.

Margaret Dubay Mikus
© 2013

From Thrown Again into the Frazzle Machine