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The lure

Looping round till it’s a blur 

the falconer swings the weighted lure

beneath the bird, enticing her

to go into a stoop.

 

With hooking bill and crookéd claw 

and plunging like a meteor

she swipes the fakery to the floor

with a vicious slap of feathers.

 

Around the crowd, a communal gasp.

The predator’s grappling in its clasp       

the prize, but is the bird a...

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