12 February 2024 (winter disquiet)

winter disquiet

a red-tailed hawk circles

and circles the sun

9 February 2024 (perched hawk)

a perched hawk

watches over a vacant lot

winter fatigue

29 January 2023 (hawk)

January thaw

a red-tailed hawk waits

on a guardrail

11 June 2022 (highway)

highway heat . . .

passing cars reanimate

the dead hawk’s feathers

15 November 2021 (stick season)

stick season

we follow the red-tail

to its perch

21 November 2020 (red-tail)

a red-tail’s last pass

late light illuminates

the barren hillside

14 November 2020 (hawk)

burnished fields

a red-tailed hawk hovers

between seasons

10 February 2019 (hawks)

countless mile markers

along the interstate

eighteen perched hawks

January 28: Hawks

To keep myself amused on long drives, I sometimes keep a tally of all the Red-tailed Hawks I see perched along the roadside, watching for prey. 

Measuring the miles—

from Kittery to Camden

a seven-hawk drive. 

January 10: Red-tail in the 'hood

We wish the young hawk

perched over our mouse-filled shed

would stick around.

 

(Photo taken through screened window)

 

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December 30: Intruder

I can't see it
but I know where the hawk's perched
by following the crows.