You but half civilize,

Taming me in this way.

Through having only eyes

For you I fear to lose,

I lose to keep, and choose

Tamer as prey.

—THOM GUNN,
“TAMER AND HAWK”

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… forgetting his own thoughts he had known at last only what the falcon knows: hunger, the wind, the way he flies.

—URSULA K. LE GUIN,
A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA