Wolf | Alessandra Lynch (+ request)

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

Hi guys, I'm on a bit on an Animorphs kick at the moment and I'm looking for poems about hawks, especially red-tails. Thank you! In return, an unrelated poem:

Wolf - Alessandra Lynch

My owl was
a deadened petal. My moon
a leadweight hat.

Sinewy and sidelong, I
slowly circled, tail
bruised yellow,
a mouthful of splinters,
and skittery gunshy eyes

that met the skulking bullet
one spring and couldn't
fix again, didn't want to feed—

my brittle haunch arched thin, made
space for rattlesnake to rise.
My shifty flank-bones,
driftwood in tired water.



Under the familiar
plummeting clouds,
in the vast, vulture-slow
terrain

(all west, all sinking)

I stopped claiming
the light

and hunkered off with rag-tag wing,
blood matting my chin, the dead croon
deep in my throat, the body
beside the point.



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Comments

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

Obviously... Ted Hughes "Hawk in the Rain" and "Hawk Roosting" which I am sure you can source on line.

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didn't even think of Hughes! Thank you.

[haggispatrol.livejournal.com]

Robinson Jeffers, Hurt Hawks. (I tried to post a link but it got my comment marked as spam. Poemhunter has the full text. Be aware that it contains a description of an injured wild animal, and of euthanasia.)

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

Thank you! That was exactly the sort of poem I was looking for. Yes, I've had LJ mark my posts as spam a few times.

[haggispatrol.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome, I'm glad to hear it suits your needs.