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in a swift arrowed flight the kestrel takes station hovering high above the heath in the clear air he balances eyes keen eyes searching eyes alert for movement of a sudden he dives almost as if he hurtles to his death just above ground he stretches wing and extends claw soon he is perched on the gnarled pine tearing the guts red and bulging from the small mouse all the time his sharp eye rings his horizons all the watchers are watched in this neat arrangement of nature |
MALCOLM PAYNE |
from New Hope International New Series #6 Next poem Previous poem |
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