100 Motionless among the rippling graves

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Motionless among the rippling graves,

that black crane is an aged crone,

and at her withered shanks laves

a shadowy bottom of earth and stone.

 

Do her sharp senses fishing the dark,

catch the gleam?  Do they remark

the bright fins and the mandala eye?

She jerks.  The sun swims in the sky.