peregrine
for ellen

beaming beat
heart wrapped tight
in powerful breast
muscles
leading eyes noting sky
drops high altitude
toward wings of
babel duck you
yell from towers of heaven
dust on my lips
lingering run—
way by o'hare
keeping owls
& owls from
finding plain or
feeble mouse walk
scaring my elephant arms
from holding on
to the memory
in your fragile shells
& graceful glide