The Kill

by Karen Carissimo

Originally published on October 30, 2009

Bodega Head
A calm wind lilting silver lupine and dill weed
through fields of dune grass, cloud light veiling
a copse of firs in the distance, green brine a dense
tea in the sea below. Thin snakes crossed open
paths into thickets of thorn and shade. Silence
settled into trees. The hawk rose from the shore’s edge,
rode the heated [...]