and pull, his pleasure
so efficient, so of course, of course,
the throat triumphant,
rising up. Not
the violence, poor grackle. But the
sparrow, high above us, who
knew exactly.
(Marianne Boruch's poems "Near Halloween" and "The Hawk" appear in her book "Poems: New and Selected." Oberlin College. Copyright © 2004 by Marianne Boruch.)
