Stork
There’s a stork which stands there patient and proud as I pass by the river on the drive into town . He’s a metaphor for something, I don’t know, but he probably needs a name.
He’s there most days, by the sign about fishing rights, thinking “What are you going to do, I’m a fucking stork. I should be out delivering babies or something? Get real - I fish; this is what I do. License this.”
He’s not flustered by the cars or anything. I don’t know if storks have eyelids, but if he does they never bat, as he melts from a mass to a silhouette as twilight turns the light grey.
Tomorrow’s song is about nature and longing, as is the midweek story on Wednesday. It sounds sad, like todays post, but they’re not. It’s all good right now and right now’s what matters.
Keep that with you and have a great weekend.
Seven hours later….
Oh COCKS - It was a heron! Herons don’t even deliver babies, so that joke’s fucked for a start.
I’m such a shmoe. What do you want for nothing? Research?
July 13th, 2007 at 8:06 am
There is a large pond near where I live which has a “No Fishing” sign in the middle of it. Generally speaking there is at least one stork on it. I like that.
Mind you, I liked it less when we had a pond in the garden with koi carp in it. The reason I don’t have any koi anymore is largely because of the stork community. Or Winged Death, as they are known in the koi community.
July 13th, 2007 at 8:06 am
That’s wing-ed death, not “wingd”.
July 13th, 2007 at 10:54 am
OK, so mollusks, tomatoes, fish - or stork?
You’re surreptitiously sending out secret meal plans to your network of culinary spies aren’t you?
July 13th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
When I had a koi pond, we referred to the birds of prey that hung out for sushi as ‘Death From Above’.
July 13th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
Ed do we even have storks in Texas? I dont think that I have ever seen one.
July 13th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
You have egrets, don’t you? I remember those from the south.
I’ve got this image of Guernica now involving fish.
July 13th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
I think herons do occasionally deliver babies, but only when the NHS is really really stretched.
July 13th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
We have cranes, Dawn, I’ve seen several in Carrollton near ponds. Not sure if Ive ever actually seen a stork, but I have seen many cranes.
Is that what’s on the menu for tomorrow, Cliff? Fowl?