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Mantling: When birds of prey hunch their shoulders and spread their wings over a kill to keep it hidden from other predators. To a Hawk Mantling It all comes down to this harrier hawk, and a vision intense as the smell of bleeding. It comes to the rabbit under her wings, a creature that moments ago was breathing.… Continue reading To a Hawk Mantling
Hushed as dawn, the hawk glides, her wings superior and wide, and calibrates the wind’s heft and sees the rabbits scatter, hide. Drifting free as feral breath, and feathers falling after death from sacrificial doves—we mourn their partners and their empty nests— she hovers high above the shore without a wing flap, leaving… Continue reading Signature: A Red-Tailed Hawk