To force even thoughts on a rocky pavement

Forcing even thoughts 

on rocky pavement 

Losing one concentration

not an acceptable outcome

in a situation where

Losing another concentration is the goal. 

Too much weighty stuff at stake

Too much worrying can break. 

In one day!

To see a baby eagle fall from the nest

To see a fat long rat snake sinuous in the sand

Breaking its cross across the crossing

Hiding low in the leafy bananas 

its tiny head terrifying 

Then later 

and far above

in the overheated sky

Paralyzed that snake

and caught by the eagle parent

And then far above still

And farther

the other eagle parent

Takes the other end gently

A space docking 

The snake is stretched like a line between parentheses these parents 

These parents pull on either end and

snake now a lifeless flesh enemy and meal for what eaglets lie still in the rough and twiggy nest

This aerie uneven

We can't see

This aerie

Floating in the tree

Above lagoon and shoreline waits

In sacred sun and torrid wastes

In fisher waters calm with fury

Tempered by the feathers furry 

To force even thoughts on a rocky pavement 

Curries concentration where concentration is to be had