Poem: Heron

John Saunders
1 min readFeb 9, 2019

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Completely still, the heron fits the world. Why don’t I?

I want to be at ease. Peaceful.

It watches the people swimming upstream.

I watch the heron watching.

Why do I want to be natural?

How could I be anything but?

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John Saunders
John Saunders

Written by John Saunders

‘Let us stand here and admit that we have no road.’ William Empson

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