1000 Seagulls

Along the dock at Nanking,

I began to draw one thousand seagulls.

The first had been drawn before.

So, I drew another, a third . . .

But all had been drawn before.

 

To catch life, I must be quick.

By less than a moment the seagull has changed.

But the gull doesn’t stop,

Except to die,

Ah, such splendid beauty,

To watch a seagull fly.