Archive for the ‘Vultures’ Category

17 Nov

The Preying Vulture

Posted by John Shore in Animals, Autobiography, Poems, Vultures, Writing. Tagged: , .

This is the second part of A Vulture Tried to Eat My Face.
Having beaten myself into exhaustion
ascending a mountain I had no place on
a shadow slid across my path
before a lord of the sky descended to hover
just out of arm’s reach
a vulture, majestic and hideous
head cocked
blinking its oily black eyes at me
unabashedly curious
“Oh, my God!” I [...]

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14 Nov

A Vulture Tried to Eat My Face

Posted by John Shore in Animals, Autobiography, Vultures.

As my regular readers know, I never, ever, in even the slightest possible way, exaggerate. So you can believe me when I tell you that yesterday a vulture tried to gobble my visage.
I was on my health walk. I was on a trail in the mountains near where I live, probably a mile and a half [...]

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