Egrets And Cormorant Poem by Daniel Trevelyn Joseph

Today I saw the first cormorant
Standing on the stone platform
Black, and wings fully spread
Towards the Bandra Railway Station.

It is the first sighting
Post-monsoon this year of grace
2013 when my eyesight is ok
Despite being a diabetic for 15 years.

Wish I could be still and at peace,
Like him, and darkness personified
Without pollution of light:
Like his neighbors, the thirteen egrets.

There were three buffaloes grazing
Providing fleas and food to egrets
While the water-bird surveys them
Keeps watery distance, drying his wings.