Peregrine: #poetry #Earthweal

You appeared as if a small bird
soaring skyward like an anchor in reverse
but oh, that skydive as you folded in your wings and hurtled earthwards
as if the sky hung suspended and
time, telescoped with adrenaline
slowed down to that calculated
fatal moment
bullet blow to your prey
sky-arc of the angel of death
all witnessed as one
drawing in of breath:
Falcon magnificence.

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Posting for Earthweal’s Open Link Weekend #46. I have fellow Earthwealer Suzanne, of Mapping Uncertainty to thank for the prompt. I was discussing with her the impact of seeing a Peregrine Falcon hunting in the wild once long ago. It certainly made an impression on me.