Raptor
They float in circles
Tips of wings against building
They eat pigeons too
Honestly, didn't it have a chance to be really beautiful, this haiku? But I couldn't leave it without a gruesome bird-on-bird scene of violence—the elegant bird of prey noshing on the strangely-shaped rat of the sky. I used to see these red-tailed hawks circling outside of Big Pink from my ninth-story window, and their wing tips would brush the side of the building ever so slightly. And then I would see them tearing into a pigeon on the top of another building. It was awesome.
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