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pacific blues and greens, cautiously<br />
eyeing the calm, barge-bearing current.<br />
It looked mud-tired from the rapid New River descent,<br />
in no hurry to join the Ohio at Point Pleasant,<br />
where, in a blast of breaking,<br />
the Silver Bridge let go of itself<br />
and fell heavily as lead-speckled<br />
birds drop from the air.<br />
Afterwards, small children passing<br />
high over in long cars held their breath…<br />
listening…<br />
for the unerring sweep-beating of<br />
immense, dark, moth-man wings<br />
whipping the greedy, dark water,<br />
monstrous red eyes glowing<br />
as murkily as submerged headlights.<br />
—Martha Owens<br />
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