in blood-blue arteries of artless flight and gather
egrets meet and feed
in shallow
shadow peace
and blue
on sand bars ochre red
beaks and birds feed as cells
cancer breeds like birds
birds in shallows deep
eat and eat
feed in blood
in blood-blue river river of blood
and bird
they nod
and nod
honed scythes innate
slash the cancer down
eat the fish
the cancer fish
fish and cancer feed
blue arteries collapse
and fold as egrets feed
on drought
rare treat
and cancer tides