I hear that time and space can fold upon themselves.

Yesterday can touch tomorrow.

Distance galaxies within my reach.

I walk the hill and see an eagle.

He floats in a circle near to me.

I continue up the hill.                       

A red tailed hawk sits in a tree.

I take a path toward him.

He flies off and circles me.

I feel him lock on me, the prey.

I spread my arms to appear bigger than I am….

 

I stop the car – rainy evening.

I race to a mailbox by the Horseshoe Café.

The old and weary eyes of a young woman meet mine.

I am a police car in her rear view mirror.

Our eyes lock for a millisecond – she looks away.

The hawk looks down at me.

I ponder life.

Today is the tomorrow that will be yesterday.

I walk the hill again.

A bald eagle – probably the same one - floats by me.

This time he doesn’t circle.

He floats toward the Sound just past a crescent moon

That I would not have seen.

I ponder distance and space.

Later images transformed to words and back to images

enter my computer.

A red tailed hawk floats past my window and circles….flies off.

I’m lost in thought but see hawk reflection in the shiny base of the monitor.

Safely behind stories and poems – no spreading arms.

 

At the bottom of the hill I cross Samish Way.

Five seconds later a bus rolls past – time –space- I had just been there.

The world goes around.

Nobody notices – but what if it stopped?

It is now the tomorrow that is the today that will be yesterday.

And the details will be forgotten next week.

Yesterday I walked in Fairhaven – a bald eagle drifted by -

Chased by a tiny seagull – protecting her nest.

Eagle moved away from her persistent pecking.

Did he just ignore her and follow his normal path?

Or did she bother him just enough?

The drama unfolded overhead but no one else seemed to notice.

Like politicians meeting behind closed doors with corporate donors

            And environmental groups

This morning I sat and woke up as slowly as the world outside.

I looked dimly toward Orcas Island.

A bald eagle flew close to my window.

What is your message brother eagle?