Breaking Down This Vertigo

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How does a King forfeit his authority? Let us remember.

Meeting at Hot Creek

An unusual moment of confluence,

a pair of hawks circling at twilight

held up on the winds of a storm

and the fractal light of the setting

sun, an image of timeless buoyancy.

They were soaring high and free,

as if summoned from the still warm

cliffs. In deep silence, bathed

in a hot spring creek and the light

of the descending sun, I met

their buoyancy with my own.