Winter Buzzard

Winter buzzard

1870.	Grey, damp field, turned inside out,
        A winter buzard in profile,
        A solitary tree on wet sky, both
        Ornaments along an asphalt route;
        Territory of carrion, roadkill prey.
        A hare cowering in cold furrows;
        The head of the bird turns, but half wild;
        White plumage with brown drops,
        Blood and fur on poisoned soil.


New in Index Ten Thousand: Winter buzzard • 1870

In Memory of Du Fu (712-770), A painted Hawk, in The Poetry of Du Fu, 1.11, Library of Chinese Humanities, de Gruyter.

Winter buzzard is in English called a Rough-legged buzzard.

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