large brown feathers
white specs underneath
cross i80 eastbound
touching down in the median
for a moment
then darting back
in time for me to notice
that it looked like a hawk
leaving empty-handed
back to nebraska tree-line
masking dried-up corn fields
front man for drying up planet
masking entrenched denials
masking what goes for political discourse
right now
--- e b bortz
