David Lee: "November Idyll: After the still life"

Leviticus 7:12-15

Above the grain field stubble
a lift of cranes

like a great table cloth
shaken

"November Idyll: After the still life" by David Lee. Text as published by Orion Magazine (November/December 2007).

Art credit: "Monte Vista Crane Festival," photograph by the Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the Colorado Tourism Office.