The Accident
While it was happening,
the absolute
not me of it, the all
of a sudden see—
through whirr of wings beside me
that the late sun
just as I looked up
turned into a hovering
flash, a watery grey—
green iridescence
as the beak dipped into
a funnel of blossom,
dipped and was gone, and not even
the blossom's white
tip bent in its going,
or shivered—
While this, which could have happened
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Alan Shapiro will publish two books in 2011: Night of the Republic, a book of poems, and Broadway Baby, a novel. His last book of poems, Old War, won the 2009 Ambassador Book Award in poetry.