a supernatural reckoning

While on her walk

She found on the ground

A beautiful feather

From a red-tailed hawk

She immediately accepted

This favorable sign

Messages from the spirit realm

Are often unexpected

She believed this feather

Was confirmation

That we are all

Mystically interconnected

Nature

Humans

Earth

Spirit

At the very same moment

The girl bent down

To accept this feather gift

A hawk

Dove down

And plucked

A fear-frozen chipmunk

Off a nearby rock wall

While its clenched meal

Twisted and squeaked

The hawk swiftly flew off

And out of sight

The feather dropped

Out of the girl's hand

As she decided

This was no other-worldly revelation

No message here

Other than simply:

‘It is not a good day to be a chipmunk’