Hawk

                       hawk circling

overhead pines,

outstretched wings eclipse

sun

then clouds

then sky;

graceful diurnal merry-go-round,

elegant dance,

solitary.

                       the hunt,

carnivorous,

fatal.

                      nimble annular flight
revealing slavery
to survival.

                       joy-glide

before The Kill.

below,

small skittering 

mouse,

slithering reptile,

half-conscious(es),

dilly-dallying(s), 

hunting, too,

unawares:

above’s 

                       impending doom,

sudden end 

to thought,

sensation,

beating heart;

                       rapid digestion:

swoop, then bite 

which takes you,

through pale pink 

viscous pipeline,

and down, and inward;

somber transition

from living, breathing doodad

to intestinal pulp.

. . . . . .

©erika s. haines 2014