I burn / like a house on fire,
/ skeleton-thoughts like the rib-timbers of retaining walls,
/ stark and black against the agony / of hungry lustful flames.
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Hawk, Bird
What does it symbolizea bird escaping the clutches of a hawk in the middle of a wind? The hawk balances flapping futilely reaching with its talons a tiny scrap of shadow whisks itself away weighing nothing wings stretched outalmost like a twig or a clutch of dead leaves. It could be a clutch of dead …
The Body Year 