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| Eagle with One Wing by Christopher Hall. |
The poor thing could not fly;
it fluttered in a clockwise ring.
Another squawked nearby,
similarly handicapped,
but anticlockwise in
the one-winged way it feebly flapped.
They filled me with chagrin
and then a bright idea brewed—
what if I was to tie
the two together? Then they could
Siamesely fly.
And so they did, the left wing and
the right, united, flew.
It happened in cloud cuckoo land—
one wing was red, one blue.
John Beaton, a retired actuary who was born in Scotland, is a widely published poet and spoken word performer from Vancouver Island, Canada.