Fischer Lawrence writes science curriculum and serious games in real life. Who says nature poems are tame?
The Mating of the Cooper’s Hawk
(For Wendy, who saw it all)
By Fischer Lawrence
You brought the body to your love.
A ‘munk, five stripes,
Before you:
Carefully stripped its fur
Naked
It lay, tribute to your lustful nature
And she ate of it.
Your reward was the act itself,
The foreplay had proven your
Worth.
The brief copulation was no small
Reward for the effort,
The lust for blood:
Both hunger and
One’s program coursing toward another
(Fifty percent is blood to die for!)
Hard to ignore once you’ve tasted
It.
For death
and love,
and life,
Is the moment
Even you
(Who has not loved another!)
Should appreciate.
Beautiful description.