Cabildo Quarterly online: "Nighthawks -- A Sequence" by Leonore Hildebrandt

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Nighthawks

Slicing into thought itself,
stringing flight noiselessly

through thick yellow light that hunkers
over the asphalt, the tall illuminations,

the pallid sky––between Interstate and motel,
unnoticed mostly, the moth-eaters convene,

ambitious, fast, exuberant––
releasing hunger into…