"I'm a hunter, a predator..."

I’m hunter, a predator, trying to capture

The wing of a cardinal on a camera screen.

But startled, it flutters, escaping the aperture

And flies away, - scarlet over emerald green.

Perhaps in a poem, if not on a photo, -

If not on a screen, the perhaps on a page…

So strong is my passion to conquer and cage

The cardinal wing and birches in autumn…