Linda Eve Diamond's Blog, page 5
April 12, 2015
New Poem: The Secret Poetry of Common Nighthawks
THE SECRET POETRY OF COMMON NIGHTHAWKS
By Linda Eve Diamond
Common nighthawks are dark, a solitary breed at heart
vanishing with quiet ease into a complexpatterns ofleaves.
They riseto fly when called by half-lit skies
and themood-rich music of rain.
To our eyes,a leaf blows upward and turns
without a breeze's blinkinto a bird—
as if one night upon a fallingstar
the fallen leaf had made a secret wish.
Once their wings emerge, they fly,
puff and strut, boominto a dive,
spend a flutter of time
among theoth...
