Cloud Eagle

 Cloud Eagle

Looking east over the Great Lake waters,

I saw a white bird in the cloud, that is, the bird was the cloud,

an eagle with wings stretched across the sky.

Startlingly, I saw the same bird with his vast wings  

when last I looked up in the sky over this Lake a year ago.

What is the cloud eagle telling me ?

Perhaps, with his outstretched wings in an attitude of protection,

that this Great Lake’s waters needs to be safeguarded from pollution,

and that I and all mankind need to protect all the precious waters of the Earth.