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Native History Daniel Barbiero Washington DC |
Native History A red tailed hawk Floats on an updraft Receives the rays Of the sun in his eyes In a landscape That cannot write itself, Its native history A virgule of cloud Drifting by In a raw pattern Of forgetting What only we remember-- Mind finally being a quality Of the landscape we knew Before anything else A perennial field In the shade of a ridge Exposed red to the air. We may spend a lifetime Writing and revising its map From a place where Time is long And undulant and lucid, A pattern of birdflight In a black-blue sky. Daniel Barbiero [Return to Psychopoetica home page] ©The contents of this page are copyright protected.
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