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Safe

on the roof hawk chicks

secure at

twenty-three

floors high

nestle their mother

under bright sun

watching

the male soar

free to hunt,

enquiring amber eyes seeing

colours we can't

no

flames

disturb the

eyrie no

screams ascend or

smoke black as

seventy-one funerals

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◄ 24 Carat

Hamburg Tram ►

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Stephen Gospage

Tue 4th Aug 2020 17:37

Very moving. Thank you.

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