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“Hawk Says Finally”

Book Excerpt: The Intimacy of Spoons

Hawk Says Finally

Once in the gap between hills
Hawk hovered against
hard blue sky for so long —

no twitch no strain each
muscle twining with wind
red tail coppering the sun —

the blustering air turned
Hawk into a cluster of stars
a sudden constellation

outshining Orion and Bear
a new god to kneel to
in song and prayer.

“Hawk Says Finally”

Excerpted from The Intimacy of Spoons (Madville Publishing). Copyright © 2024. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved. Jim Minick is the author or editor of eight books, including Without Warning: The Tornado of Udall, KansasFire Is Your Water, and The Blueberry Years: A Memoir of Farm and Family. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Poets & Writers, Oxford American, Orion, Shenandoah, Appalachian Journal, Wind, and The Sun. He serves as coeditor of Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel.

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