Finally, I Get It

Photo: (c) Jamie K. Reaser

I keep trying to speak eloquently

on behalf

of an eagle,

Pushing at words,

And failing,

miserably.

He says,

“Where there is power,

 
there is no

need

for force.”

© 2013/Jamie K. Reaser

From "Wild Life: New and Selected Poems" (to be published by Hiraeth Press in June 2013; www.hiraethpress.com)