asemic
ovenbird
When
you
wake
,
you
look
out
your
bedroom
window
to
find
a
Cooper’s
Hawk
dismembering
a
Mourning
Dove
.
Plucked
feathers
form
abstract
text
on
the
blank
expanse
of
snow
.
Red
ink
splashes
over
a
frozen
page
.
There
’s
poetry
in
the
hawk
’s fierce
rending
.
Here
is
a
gentle
raptor
swallowing
grief
whole
—soft cooing cries
silenced
.
One
stomach
sated
.
One
witness
trembling
as
the
winter
eats
itself
alive
.
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who
go
blather
from