THE DAINTY MONSTERS
Michael
Ondaatje
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Early Morning, Kingston to Gananoque
The twenty miles to Gananoque
with tangled dust blue grass
burned, and smelling burned
along the highway
is land too harsh for picnics.
Deep in the fields
behind stiff dirt fern
nature breeds the unnatural.
Escaping cows canter white
then black & white
along the median, forming out of mist.
Crows pick at animal accidents,
with swoops lift meals —
blistered groundhogs, stripped snakes
to arch behind a shield of sun.
Somewhere in those fields
they are shaping new kinds of women.
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