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The Falcon

Poetry

It chokes me
so that I cannot breathe—
this longing for open sky and joyous wings.

It rises,
flows into my words—
a gurgle here,
a trickle there.

Soon,
a lake surrounds me,
cool and clear.
And in its depths,
mirror of my desire,
a falcon flies,
wingtips brushing the sun.