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Hawks Flying
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63 Hawks Flying Stone is only one of the excesses of God, and it is through stone some of us know God. To gather stone against the ocean’s coming is to say water and sky may enter. Stone perched on stone: a window through which we glimpse the world to see hawks flying and to forget we are human. We know what we build cannot last. Even the stones will become rubble when the hawk’s eyes blacken, and hunger’s shadow drowns the words we’ve placed in the mouth of God. After Robinson Jeffers ...