Bank of China
Giant iron birds atop steel trees
Their droppings like hot blisters
against a lead colored sky.
Wings festooned with lights
casting glare-washed shadows
over little brown men in tattered
shorts climbing bamboo ladders
in wet sneakers.
Iron birds retching gullets of concrete
into welded nests.
Rising higher, always higher,
straining the sea upon which they rest
1st place winner, Non-rhyming poetry 2002 Writer's Digest Writing Competition (19,000 entrants)
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