Only a Kestrel Twinge of the Heart [Day 95]
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<center><h1>Only a Kestrel
Twinge of the Heart</h1>**original poetry with recitation audio**</center>
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<h2>Only a Kestrel
Twinge of the Heart</h2>
I saw memory in the shape of a falcon
Pointillistic, irreverent—
Half-swooning in slow disintegration
Swooping down over the blazing hills.
Drilling passages through the thick air,
Leaving trails of whispering skin.
A nectarine wash of the sunrays
Assaulted me cloying and warm.
I fled from their fickle elation,
I shrank from their impotent form.
The avenues teeming with life
Were still, a facade of good cheer.
Frozen and shattered, the falcon
Full tore through the veil with a leer.
Crates piled up outside
The grocery, spent and ruined
Contained a trace of my pain:
Rancid they fizzled and shook
Beneath the skein of the mind.
Focus, a falconine claw
In the spiraling locus of sight
Shot out to seize the damp boxes,
Sought to retreive the dim light.
No rest, in the clutches of anger,
No sleep, in the grasp of fear.
I watched the great kestrel a-pining
And it saw through me as I drew near.
Its eyes were shattering gems,
The beak, a cobble of glass.
A moment I stared and all changed,
In a flurry of feathering mass.
Colors hypnotic and glum
Put out the sun with a flourish of stripes
Drawn across the clouds
Hurled haphazard across the dying town
To shine its eaves.
Swirling the shape chaotic with glee
Retracing the wistful trails.
Rising through shimmering waves of steam
Portentous, ineluctable—
Remembrance sweet, and sad, and soft
Swooped through the sky in the guise of a hawk;
Forever to soar, and hunt its fill
In false world of the past.
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<center><h2>Poetry
Written by
@d-pend on 6/9/18
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Photos by</h2>**.
[1 — "Kestrel" by FantasticFennec](https://fantasticfennec.deviantart.com/art/Kestrel-163726539)** *[cropped]*
**[2 — "Hovering Kestrel" by Thrumyeye](https://www.deviantart.com/art/Hovering-Kestrel-271966022)
[3 — "Mr. Kestrel" by Zoldszorny](https://www.deviantart.com/art/Mr-Kestrel-607168520)**
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