http://www.propublica.org/blog/item/
photo-of-the-day-pelicans-drenched-in-oil
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/
caught_in_the_oil.html
The Bronze Bird
After the taxidermist
ties up his work,
immerse the pelican
in molten metal,
an elegant bronze
the color of oil —
swirly on water,
deadly on feathers.
Over long months
oxidation draws
from the bronze
a verdigris patina,
color of the gulf
he flew over
the year before.
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