A gaudy hunter
Floating in a poacher's crouch
Above the chimneys
Swimming through smoked air
Coaxing resultant stillness
From the headlong wind
A scrub vole sighted
Scratching through the sooted grass
Half a daily feast
Coordinates stored
Greedy eyes fix the quarry
The beak salivates
A brass-necked plummet
Through the mangled atmosphere
Greedy talons strike
A light-fingered flight
Ripped-up polluted groundkill
Feeds nested infants
Its shadow still there
A ghost of the immobile
Fixed by chemicals
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