Re: Hawk Roosting - Ted Hughes


George Cherry wrote:
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Uncle Weasel wrote:
On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 12:27:15 -0500, Julian wrote
(in message <1140370035.891945.171270@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed.
Inaction, no falsifying dream
Between my hooked head and hooked feet:
Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat

The convenience of the high trees!
The air's bouyancy and the sun's ray
Are of advantage to me;
And the earth's face upward for my inspection.

My feet are locked upon the rough bark.
It took the whole of Creation
To produce my foot, my each feather:
Now I hold Creation in my foot

Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly -
I kill where I please because it is all mine.
There is no sophistry in my body:
My manners are tearing off heads-

The allotment of death.
For the one path of my flight is direct
Through the bones of the living.
No arguments assert my right:

The sun is behind me.
Nothing has changed since I began.
My eye has permitted no change.
I am going to keep things like this.
From 'Lupercal' (1960)

My poor sliced forefinger has finally pretty much healed from the
Redtail's talons slicing it four weeks ago. Gonna looked carred and lumpy
for a long time, though.

never try to goose a hawk

If you do, duck!

"The interesting thing about the Tamiflu vaccine for bird flu that
everybody keeps going on about, is this: it's not a vaccine. The
manufacturers even spell that out in their fact***. It's a drug, an
antibiotic for viruses."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/badscience

http://ptlslzb87.blogspot.com/

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