Osprey
by Kay Ryan
Book I
The great taloned osprey
nests in Scotland.
Her nest's the biggest
thing around, a spiked basket
with hungry ugly osprey offspring
in it. For months she sits on it.
He fishes, riding four-pound salmon
home like rockets. They get
all the way there before they die,
so muscular and brilliant
swimming through the sky.
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Such a sad sardonic story for the salmon! The osprey are so beautiful and horrible. Interesting.
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