With warmth and its fiery glory
Beside me it flew

With speed and strength
Downward it dived

I followed,
It looked at me,

I then saw what it was
A blend of beauty and brawn

Flapping wings,
A war cry,

A ‘Katrina’ of fire
And that’s all I remember

Of the bird with
The fire of immortality

And of the bird with
The body of the blaze of beauty
And with eyes of
The kindness of the heavens.