Remember the Seagulls (from Overcoming My Fear of Nature)
“Gulls mulled in the greenest of light.”
~Sylvia Plath, The Hermit At Outermost House
They are not that hard to forget.
White body, gray wings
And a red brick on their lips.
Little opportunistic buzzards
Breaking up all our pic-a-nicks.
They are the unclean birds of Leviticus
I remember, I remember alright
At dusk, the hermit sun setting just right
“Gulls mulled in the greenest light”
