Monday, May 25, 2009

Cooper's Hawk

Wing flickers
straight-line

from a perch
to a patch
of desert scrub,

cartwheel down
on a fluster
of feathers

and squeeze out
the last chureep.

2 comments:

ish said...

Tight, vivid, fatal. A fluster of feathers ... that's superb.

gautami tripathy said...

Wonderful...

two sides of the same coin