26 Atlantic Crossings was a collaboration between writers in the UK and artists from Prince Edward County in Canada. I was paired with sculptor Iris Casey, and this is the end result. It is in the form of a ‘sestude’ – 62 words.
Raptor
Mercy killer without mercy.
Hunter.
Dropping silent. Fast.
Faster.
Talons primed.
Raptor,
sweet bird of death.
‘Survival of the fittest,’ was your cry
and destiny
long before Darwin
dripped
ink
into
notebooks.
Your nib writes red:
‘Deliverance’.
Your elegies are told
in feather, blood
and bone.
Gleaning no pleasure
from the kill,
you do what must be done
and then take wing.
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