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HAWK

by Kannaloke Napea

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I wish I were you, hawk,
I wish I had your glare

to fish from that high rock
and lock upon a thing as small as I
with your incendiary stare.

From there I’d fly like you
into the bluish after blue,
dividing up the sky with 
wing-split rhythms, beating 
into halves the wind;

I wish I had your eyes 
to see, your weight to light 
upon some distant tree, to land 
as softly as a rock in sand, 
not heavily the way your feathers fall

with such serene intensity
from the unyielding fields of
clouds and endless beams
of constant darkening 

and again brightening 
sky. I wish that I could know

a world above the ground
the way you do; 
I wish I could let go, 
like you, of everything
below.
Kannaloke Napea is a writer and artist living on the Big Island of Hawaii. 
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