Chicken Hawk Talk, for d’versepoets.com

Young RedTail Hawk, Jane Kohut-Bartels, watercolor

 

Chicken Hawk!

Leave my chickens alone!

I have worked hard for them,

A handmaiden of fowl,

Collecting rainbow eggs

The gift of the species

Naturally dyed

Pink, brown, blue-green and white,

Jumbled in the nest,

Warm succulent fruit

Awaiting the promise of birth.

 

Such precious gems

Presented at Easter,

Symbol of the Lamb of God,

The Spring of Life.

 

Leave my chickens alone, hawk.

I won’t even share.

 

Yet,

I remember two short years ago,

When I saw you wheeling over the kudzu

Riding the thermals,

Not graced with the brick-colored tail

Of a proper Red Tail hawk–

 

And I gasped at your splendor,

a winged God from the cosmos,

glittering white ash against a cobalt sky,

And you landed one day in my birdbath,

Trying to look like a stone sculpture,

And just the flicker of your 8x eyes

Looked over the songbirds for lunch.

 

 

Jane Kohut-Bartels

Copyrighted, 2016

 

 

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