“My shoe is off. My foot is cold. I have a bird I like to hold.”
Source: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
“It took the whole of Creation
To produce my foot, my each feather:
Now I hold Creation in my foot.
Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly –
I kill where I please because it is all mine.
There is no sophistry in my body:
My manners are tearing off heads –
The allotment of death.”
"Hawk Roosting", line 10
Lupercal (1960)
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Denise Chávez
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