Stories of Paraná - Falcon

Stories of Paraná - Falcon

Hawk
Nilson Monteiro

That spells brought on its wings carijós, who broke 25,000 kilometers in search of the sun?
What mysteries were reserved to them in the midst of species to merit consideration of Chinese emperors extreme symbol of prestige and power, untouchable, causing decapitation whom you cross the taking of life?
Thousands of eyes clung rooftop Rural Association, in the heart of Londrina, looking majesty, indifferent, exposed to the sun licks in town verânica made lizard.
Poser, star, transformed into shining city.
Most wanted to headline provoked torticollis in children and adults.
Assanhou.
Lonely, since I fired up the frigid Northern Hemisphere.
Lonely in the sky blue cloth Londrina.
Solitary, in fear of the other birds.
Their flight is accurate towards victims - doves, sparrows and other birds anarchists in leafy trees of the square.
Merciless killing.
Made carcará in northeastern hinterland.
Famine in slum OK But not everything is arrogance.
The small birds take revenge of her beauty by nature, eating insects poisoned by insecticide.
He, feeding birds, destroys his kingdom, extinguishes its kind.
To remain, it is necessary to fly world.
Last year, at the same time, also enchanted Londrina, carijós with his feathers, and only left when winter came coming, meek, gray. "Species weird," muttered Valdevino Cruz, caretaker of the building where the majesty made his abode.
He, pilgrim, a new attraction this adventurous city of just over half a century, appears to reject the adjective.
Poses, even as the bird world's most perfect.
This, which landed in Londrina curiosity, seems certain.
Others of his race, seems to remember, live in palaces like Queen Elizabeth or the then Soviet Premier Chernenko or kings of Saudi Arabia.
Paradão, gathered with their wings, seems to endorse the value that men set for their species.
Anyone looking at her beauty know why the Popes in the Middle Ages, both preserved, reaching crucify daring they dreamed about killing one of them.
Paradão, seems to mock traps, snares, cages, slings, arrows, strings, no.
Nobody can pass unharmed beautiful. There's even the case of an old man in the Mall, which ceased to look fleshy legs with his binoculars to set your sights already weak feathers.
I learned to do some shopping, asphyxiated by the recession, received a new lease of life with the sale, capital of binoculars.
Yesterday, early, however, frowning clouds marred the spectacle: definitely the pilgrim does not like cold and did not come to pose on your stage.
Hid? Frustrated who wanted to go crazy with her beauty.
Flapped in search of the sun? Was kidnapped by ornithologists? Who lost, lost, predicted Valdevino.
It is likely to come back, who knows? Who knows this gypsy? Next year, perhaps, the city battered repeat a question on this day: "Have you seen??"

Nilson Monteiro, journalist and poet.


Source: Stories of Paraná, Brasil.