• LOOKING FOR EAGLES


    To her
    almost any bird
    could be an eagle.
    I don’t even look.

    One day while riding
    she saw three eagles
    and wondered
    whether the fourth
    a blackbird
    was one.

    My laugh
    said she was crazy.
    She said it could be
    that I didn’t even look;
    just maybe it was.
    How can one
    see an eagle
    if one never
    watches the sky?

    She is all I need to see.
    You see
    she is an eagle
    to me.