crow wings like blades above the grass
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8 November 2022
State College PA
Category: Birds
the reflection of a hawk
in the window
of the car ahead of me
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26 October 2022
State College PA
clashing nature
a northern cardinal leaps
from a red-leafed maple
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25 October 2022
State College PA
trying to shoot a video
of the damned hawks
don’t they know I’m on TikTok?
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5 October 2022
State College PA
I told a friend our breakup story
it’s all still fresh on my skin
two hawks watch from the tower
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3 October 2022
State College PA
raptor on the radio tower
pickin’ up signals
shrieks as I approach
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27 September 2022
State College PA
raven on the lamppost
vans lined up beneath
testing the wind’s direction
/ / /
13 September 2022
State College PA
an eagle drops like a rock into the river
rises with a fish in its talons
I crane my neck, steer around the curve
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19 August 2022
just outside Bethel VT
on a whaling voyage
under an oak’s shade
suddenly: a finch!
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4 August 2022
State College PA
a raven in the canopy
watches as I pass
each to their own thoughts
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1 August 2022
State College PA
a turkey vulture
plods across the sky
but doesn’t fall
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30 July 2022
State College PA
Tanglewood Evening
on the lawn our attention
drawn to one woman coughing
as the pianist plays
***
four low voices slip
across the manicured grass
a warbler enters from the trees
***
air heavy with citronella
the pop of a cork
during the applause
***
a lone student’s violent end
transformed into melody
all breaths are held
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Bastille Day
14 July 2022
Ozawa Hall lawn
Tanglewood
Lenox MA
I save my place
in a dead poet’s words
with a goose’s lost feather
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2 July 2022
Wahconah Falls State Park
Dalton MA