Original DDE™ art: “Beautiful Predator” — by: rob kistner © 4/9/26
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I rise
over the long breath
of sterling ocean
sunlit thermic lift
carries me skyward
as if it remembers me
I am known by many names—
…osprey
…sea hawk
…fish hawk
…river hawk
but in this instance
I’m known by my nature
below—
the restless skin of water
rolling—
shifting—
silver thought
to silver thought
I circle
riding the thermals
not urged by hunger alone
but by a knowing
something moves
just beneath the visible
there—
…a flicker
…a fin
…a turning blade of life
I fold—
fall—
rapid and clean
through brightness…
to splash—
to enter the cold truth
of this moment
wings break
into water
then out again—
weight in my grasp—
pulse answering impulse
I climb
carrying the morsel—
carrying the moment
between sea and sky
today—
the coast speaks clearly
…nothing hidden
…everything moving
and I
held inside it—
being
what I have always been—
always will be…
…predator
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rob kistner © 4/9/26