And what is this magic-
al transformation, from common Duck
to uncommon "other?" The flowered head
and body quadrapedal-How
flies my flag, my tail, with the ball
and the screw? It is all Him
who animated, intent on my re-
creation in His image-me
the lummox, the flyboy fool-And then
Just as my new body-my body
in image His-becomes me to me,
by wings, by legs, by breast,
by beak: I disappear.