Raptors & Recidivists

I
Plumed necromancer --
a red-tailed hawk casts terror,
a taloned black wind
scrying rabbit's feet &
the skinny skulls of serpents.

II
Bully-boy blue jays
scold a neighbor's cat slinking
through the yard -- feathers,
fur, speciation, no truce
between feral robber-barons.

-- Robert O'Neal