Cloud cover pinhole view <br />instant <br />nanosecond shutter speed <br />two victims on trial for their lives <br /> <br />a thousand feet below on desert sand <br />rolling tumbleweeds through cactus witnesses <br />no jury of their peers <br />a rare visitor, weary hare lost, wandering, <br />wondering if he would get rattled <br />when that wriggling rascal struck <br />his lethal injection <br />head already reared in judgment posture: <br /> <br />hare guilty as charged for being there <br />trespassing <br />standoff, eye to hare-y eye, <br />one hare-line blink death sentence for one <br />drum roll rattler clacking its maracas <br />OK CORRAL confrontation - <br /> <br />trigger finger twitch <br />rattler snapping arched neck <br />wide mouth fanged probes <br />whipping forked tongue <br />lashing air <br />sinking tines into nothingness <br />on that sky ride Eagle Talon Show <br />above the rocky ridge on mesa face <br />where rattles dashed themselves to pieces <br />head crushed on craggy rocks <br />the eagle set afternoon delight <br />while hare hopped out of sight <br />reprieved for but another night..<br /><br />Lorenzo Costigliolo<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-eagle-the-rattler-and-the-hare/
