THERE IS A LOOK
There is a look
in creation;
a face not fazed
by cajoling,
a stare not amenable
to seduction
nor accepting
of excuse
Eyes that sharpen to see
and verily don't turn
aside from watching, nor flinch
aside in surprise
and do not shut lid-closed with shame
and neither
wonder nor ask
but look hard
at seeing the wantonness
as opportunity
A face that sees only that pity
in its waste
for those fledged nanoseconds
before
the eye's winged beak zooms and tears
that thing
apart as a divine provision
of a meal
in that drama of hooked piercing
with blood
that redeems the waste.
- Image: Aquila coronata- the Black Crowned Eagle of North Africa
