His wings hold all creation in a weightless quiet
Steady as a hallucination in the streaming air.
-- Ted Hughes
from ‘The Hawk in the Rain: Poems’, 1957
Our local Master of the Wind came calling yesterday.
As the smallest of raptors, the kestrel reminds us that:
It is no small thing to live one’s own life.
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