Cormorant on the Westman Islands, Iceland

/ Iceland, Poetry

Like a broken umbrella
wings hung out to dry
lazy on lava he loiters, waits
for whatever flounder dare wander
in harbour waters beneath his razor-sharp rock.
Hungry, daggerbeak hook-tipped
aloof, then quick wing-tuck, neck-stretch
soggy the dive
so sudden the plunge to survive.

Westman (Vestmannaeyjar) Islands, S. Iceland

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