Richard Perry/The New York Times Central Park, January 2013.Dear Diary:
Five ducks preening in the sun.
One is standing on one leg
while the others hop into the water,
their white underfeathers
drifting this way and that,
and then in circles.Only the black-limbed trees
are still listening.
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