hawk roosting

• hawk roosting
• fly up, and revolve it all slowly
• i kill where i please because it is all mine
• i sit at the top of the wood, my eyes closed
• now i hold creation in my foot
• face upward for my inspection
• i am going to keep things like this
• sleep rehearse perfect skills and eat
• allotment of death
• context

  a poet laureate until his death by cancer in 1984, wrote about the natural world, said the poem wasn’t about cruelty but the hawks natural way of thinking