Invisible Danger-2 Clouds and his piercing eyes held

and his piercing eyes held the wisdom of ages

The quiet kept her still

"I have never known the feeling of soaring through the skies like the other pigeons

and the Starling’s shadow dissolved into a world filled with wonder as if the storm had cleansed the land and left behind a promise of endless possibilities

and hardened by years of living amidst the wild

Invisible Danger-2 Clouds and his piercing eyes heldThe poison had no scent, no warning written into the flesh. By the time the sky called her back, the risk had already taken hold, poison transferred up the food chain, the Hawk, found days later, unable to fly. Photograph by Robert David Atkinson