Elizabeth Searle Lamb

[image of painting] twelve o five pm, 8-7-05

twelve o five pm, 8-7-05
Janet Carney
to all paintings

Hawk

one sparrow hawk
re-shaping
the rooftop

a not right shape
until one sees
what he is
and the new shape
becomes the shape
day
after summer
day
to look for

scimitar beak
barred feathers
and the flip
of tail

how newly
heavy
becomes the word

Copyright © 2005 Elizabeth Searle Lamb

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