This piece has connected with me deeply. It's taken me some hours to mine for words to respond to it. Beautiful and moving poems both. A privilege to learn the origin story of your tattoo. Heart warmed to know sharing these things is a sign that you are more than ok. And hawk? falcon? You saw hawk and that's what matters . And I wouldn't worry too much. Often words universally understood by others don't do it quite right for me. Like ambivalent. Sounds like a not-bothered-either-way shrug. Or opaque. Far too many vowels to mean it's not see-through. And birds used to have many names. Just look up all the names for long tailed tits!
So beautifully observed. The hobby is one of my favourites, but they do scythe their way through many a dragonfly.
So few insects, dragonfly or otherwise, it seems this year.
More poems, please. 💚
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This piece has connected with me deeply. It's taken me some hours to mine for words to respond to it. Beautiful and moving poems both. A privilege to learn the origin story of your tattoo. Heart warmed to know sharing these things is a sign that you are more than ok. And hawk? falcon? You saw hawk and that's what matters . And I wouldn't worry too much. Often words universally understood by others don't do it quite right for me. Like ambivalent. Sounds like a not-bothered-either-way shrug. Or opaque. Far too many vowels to mean it's not see-through. And birds used to have many names. Just look up all the names for long tailed tits!