After the Search
After the search not even a sound, outside a hawk.
Wayne Ray
SourceLicence:Public domain
After the search not even a sound, outside a hawk.
A search ends in stillness. The speaker has been looking for something—maybe an answer, a person, a sign—and now there is only silence: “not even a sound.” That absence could feel empty, but the poem doesn’t stop there. Outside, there is a hawk.
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