…

hawks are on the rise

      since hawks were reclassified

as any creature

      with feathers & a beak

rising from the ashes

      like a hawk from the flames

as all the hawks quack

      by the blanks of the river

yet one hawk

      does not a summer make

& we can’t resist the smell

      of tandoori hawk masala

since the twitchers turned

      those ornithologists

shunned taxonomy

      & got rid of the goalposts

– look, there goes a hawk

      black & squawking so

up above the hedgerow

      formerly a crow

but no, another hawk

      r.s.p.b that ( y’ twat )

& a hawk sang

      in that there berekely square

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