Perched upon your wrist <br />a kestrel in all its wild magnificence <br />the gaze <br />always alert <br /> <br />it is we who are tamed <br />awed by its power <br />it is simply itself <br />and nothing else <br />so essentially elemental. <br />It’s flight <br />is our astonishment <br /> <br />as if it were <br />a living metaphor <br />its beauty <br />an alchemy <br /> <br />of mind
