HAWK
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Hawk above the bluff
Crosses a path of doing
Going god knows where
Balanced in one place
is morning by obsession
Feathers through restraint
Hawk isn't ordinary
Transfigured clarion
Perched in a holy place
Completes an exodus
2
Hawk is hummingbird
Small cage of speed
Feeds at critical throat
Takes nectar to iridescent souls
Spreads the yellow idea
Perpetuates red tubular troughs
Blue watch-spring petals
And wonders at his bulk
3
Feathers spread
on railway bed
waiting for death
as far and spare
as a chant
But no train comes
4
Talons
raised over mousy fur
Spectacular traffic of prey
And I ran
Reckless through berry bushes
stinging my cheeks
Now talons
raised over mousy fur
Prey, not knowing the vice
5
Heaven
gave great relief
Stars hawk circled
Angel said, I'm out
with grief
This is not my house
But miles of gray-green
atmosphere
Hawk tore, ate
This vagrant height
Only needs
the file of sight
to cut the sky left to
right
a thousand feet above the fields
where straw
and garment knit
Hawk rides with faith
the awful stitch
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