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Heron
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The hungry hermit
hunts a scarf of shore,
studious eyes open,
wings closed still
on the blue shadow.
Stanchioned tall
on spindly legs
his slow staccato gait
stands unflapped
by the lapping shallows.
At a splosh he hesitates,
one leg high-
hinged in dusky air.
Unfolding,
a muddy foot turns,
the grey ark sweeps
his diving beak
nabbing a bit of silver
napping in the cattails.
--- Pat Hegnauer
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About the author, Pat Hegnauer:
Pat Hegnauer has been an acting teacher, producer, actress and director. She founded and produced four theaters in Newport, RI, and acted as artistic director for 2nd Story Theater for twenty years. Presently she is a playwright and poet. Her plays have been produced in Rhode Island, at Perishable Theater, 2nd Story Theatre, Blithewold Chamber Theatre, and the Tiverton Four Corners Art Center, and in New York City at The Raw Space and Tribeca Theater. Her plays have had staged readings at University of Rhode Island, where she won the New Playwright award in 1996 and 1997, the Middleboro Arts Festival, Middleboro, MA, and the Sandra Feinstein Gamm Theater, Providence, RI. Her poems have been published in the Crone's Nest, Skywriters Journal, Great Swamp Gazette, Moondance, Scriveners Pan, the Utmost Christian Poets, and the Newport Review. Her first Chapbook was recently published by the Premier Poets Chapbook series in RI. Presently Pat is working on her first novel, The Kitchen Diary |
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