American Black Duck

" American Black Duck "

by Suzán Jiván

I

American black duck
violet speculum
feeding
by tipping
body
tail up

II

Mottled marshlands
continuous swamp
dotted bog
spotted fires
flaring
in ponds of orange
streaming with reams
of sweet cream
congealing
into milky seas
of frothy greens

III

Ceding
bleak winters
into verdancy
vividly streaked
like light-blue
irises
inciting strivings
to take flight
into bright-blue
summer skies

IV

Enticing
vertical lines
like corundum
in Gneiss
as a highly prized
rare variety
compiled inside
plutonic rock
huge solid hardness

V

Blazed with black
as prismatic topaz
striated
with mystically
vitreous pinks

VI

Flashing
as pyramidal
Sanskrit
in all
of the wondrous
colors inevitable love

VII

Intrinsically
fulfilling
the prophesy
of unceasingly
brilliant seasons
repeating eternally...