Bald Eagle

" Your whole life must be one of longing"
          (anonymous, The Cloud of Unknowing, 14th C)


Today the sun is out
and the longing heats up -
intensifies.

Look at the crows up there
they get it.
They fucking embody it.
The absolute.

And as we lay on the beach earlier today
blissfully happy with the sun in our eyes
we saw the shape coming our way
over the water
from the west
and it kept coming
and we began to decipher
and then recognize it.
The longing.


July 4, 2012