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By PAUL HERTELENDY
of TheColumnists.com
Beasts invincible,
Their very size intimidating.
Bellows, buglings
Propagate through seaside meadows,
Warning all to leave this herd alone.
Behemoths,
Rockhard muscles and the five-point antlers
Poking through the sky,
The tule elk are masters of the heath,
A macho rutting male
Subscribing to survival of the fittest
Dominating massive harems.
Meanwhile knots of stags look on with envy,
Plotting how to sneak around the guardian male
And steal affections of a female undetected
To produce an offspring
And assure as well
Survival of the craftiest.
---Elk Preserve,
Pt. Reyes Nat’l Seashore (CA)
©2012 by Paul Hertelendy.
The elk image is courtesy of flickr.com This column first posted
Feb. 6, 2012.
Paul Hertelendy is critic and webmaster for the arts-review web site www.artssf.com, and is also the Piedmont (CA) Centennial poet laureate. To visit his website, click here: PAUL
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