Alan S. Austin
Arizona Playwright • Writer • Poet
  

One Eye And The Eagle

One Eye loosened the goat from the cart
patted its head
showed it the grass at the side of the path

then strapped his sword and shield to his back
uncovered his head
and followed in the footsteps of the blind man
who was already far ahead of him

he marveled how a blind man could find the way

how can you see he asked
I smell I hear I feel and I remember

four days they walked
no water no food

the air grew thin
the path climbed along the edge of a mountain

suddenly from the heights
an eagle, its great wings outstretched
flew down towards them out of the sun

seeing one eye it magnified him

one eye felt the look
stared back
his eye snapping back like the eagle's
as it had never done before

this look
hit the eagle like a lightning bolt
screeching it tumbled out of the air
and fell a hundred feet
its feathers fluttering

and its cry
echoed out across the air
the rocks trembled

the blind man kept walking