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Robinson Jeffers: Hurt Hawk

I’d sooner, except the penalties, kill a man than a hawk; but the great redtail
Had nothing left but unable misery
From the bones too shattered for mending, the wing that trailed under his talons when he moved.

November 21, 2025 · 20 Comments

Chard deNiord: The Hawk

I was gazing out this morning from my perch in Bedford,
Virginia when I heard the screech of a red-
tailed hawk in the deep, cerulean sky
above a Blue Ridge mountain in which the other-
wise perfect silence was musical

February 11, 2025 · 9 Comments

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