who who who
a great raptor of the night visited me recently
these large birds of prey are rarely seen in the
day i saw one once waybackwhen on a stump
at a fork in the road (ask not for whom the bell tolls)
30 yrs ago when joints supple +tinkerbell now rigor
+cronish could be worse (ya right) the great owl is
not to be confused with hawk mythos the hawk a
pure deathbird
2 took a brother +several cackling bombdivers scooped
our mother they squawked + cawed in evil gaiety as she
lay covidbidden mother+i sat on opposite sides of a
screen door waving whenever she woke
little did i know the hawks were inches from snatching
her away in 82 days at sunrise while owls can be harbingers
of imminent death they are mostly all about transformation +
magic long the compañeros of witches+urbanjewishshamans
one generation
slips away (leaving behind boxes of photo albums +such)
one generation
makes its
steep climb
death the soil of life
up at the cemetery our ancestors stir the hawk circles the owl
sits on the yet uncarved stone as motherfatherbrother exchange
pleasantries resist fate! light out for new territories learn to
dig the mystery!
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Winter 2023 ..amor fati..and move on fer chrissakes..!
songanddancegirl 