"As it slices this day away" - written 12 May 2016 - just find it weird how heavily punctuated this is when now I hardly use any punctuation at all - guess my style changes every couple of years - this is also syllabic, with seven syllables per line, and I am not focusing so much on syllabic verse anymore

As it slices this day away

It is as a loud screeching,

continuous, percussive

in its ferocious rhythmic

stabbing, from the beak and lungs

of an aircraft-size bird of

prey pursued in wild, dipping,

circling, zig-zagging, mad, and

evasive trajectories

by angry, beastly grieving

small seed- and insect-feeders,

scattering frantic peeps and

squeals barely audible to

an audience looking up from

ground-level, slices this day away

from its calm, breezy morning

and leaves visions of battle,

murder, plunder in air and

ear—a scar, somewhere, later.