Beetlebung and Kettlehole--April Poems

Eagle Eyes

(For Nefertiti)

Should I whip a meaning for eagle eyes
with the kind of light
Orion’s belt catches at night
its smallest star offside, two others askew,
adrift like Nile’s path?

Do they watch
lost souls with three-king egos
or dead-bird carcasses hidden
under Giza’s Pyramids
telling tales with ancient punctuation?

Do they obsess with stuff they can’t handle
such as my life hunted out by years,
to which shadows have been merciful
snubbing the sun god with the curved beak
who wished to watch me fade out like him?


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Prompt: Birds