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I am standing on a disused iron bridge	A
that was erected in	B
according to the iron plaque bolted into a beam	C
the year my mother turned one	D
Imagine a mother in her infancy	E
and she was a Canadian infant at that	F
one of the great infants of the province of Ontario	G
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But here I am leaning on the rusted railing	H
looking at the water below	G
which is flat and reflective this morning	H
sky blue and streaked with high clouds	I
and the more I look at the water	J
which is like a talking picture	J
the more I think of	K
when workmen in shirts and caps	L
riveted this iron bridge together	J
across a thin channel joining two lakes	M
where wildflowers blow along the shore now	N
and pairs of swans float in the leafy coves	O
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my mother was so tiny	E
she could have fit into one of those oval	P
baskets for holding apples	Q
which her mother could have lined with a soft cloth	R
and placed on the kitchen table	P
so she could keep an eye on infant Katherine	B
while she scrubbed potatoes or shelled a bag of peas	S
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the way I am keeping an eye on that cormorant	T
who just broke the glassy surface	U
and is moving away from me and the iron bridge	A
swiveling his curious head	V
slipping out to where the sun rakes the water	J
and filters through the trees that crowd the shore	W
	-
And now he dives	X
disappears below the surface	U
and while I wait for him to pop up	Y
I picture him flying underwater with his strange wings	Z
	-
as I picture you my tiny mother	J
who disappeared last year	A2
flying somewhere with your strange wings	Z
your wide eyes and your heavy wet dress	B2
kicking deeper down into a lake	C2
with no end or name some boundless province of water	J

Billy Collins

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