HAWK
            Michael R. Collings
                c. 9/28/95
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	Hawk
	startled me
	swooped wingwide

	across

	windshield sandpitted
	waterspotted
	fog-

	blurred

	Black and
	large and bulky
	hawk

	swooped

	mindless
	of windshield
	car or

	me

	canted
	upward on
	warm draughts

	topped

	canyon's
	steep chaparral
	became like all the other

	hawks

	symmetrical
	check-mark black
	distant

	against

	blue-white
	sky
		
		
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