Lori Lamothe
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A hawk glides in on the music of lawnmowers.
The light’s a sieve,
darkness sifts down.
The wingtips of the hawk
brush the grass
and in a single bound its shadow
soars over the ghosts of television sets
haunting identical houses.
The wingspan of the hawk
cuts a path through the air and disappears
behind night’s door.
The sky is webbed with echoes—
ancient currents
that cross and recross the silence.
It is a map drawn in an unseen spectrum,
a legend of lucid gestures.
Lori Lamothe has published poems in 42opus, The Nervous Breakdown, Goblin Fruit, Seattle Review and Psychic Meatloaf, among other journals. She works as a mentor for the Afghan Women’s Writing Program and blogs at inkdiary.blogspot.com.