Kestral
A quilt
This patchwork land
This patchwork soul
Row after row
Of corn or grape
Step after step
Of yearning and longing
A quilt
Pieces of Spain
Pieces of me
Sometimes flat
Sometimes empty
Sometimes steep and painful
Sometimes deep and lost
A quilt
Above which
A single kestrel loops
String in her beak
A seamstress
Stitching us together
Land and Soul
~ Cheryl Murfin, on the Camino de Santiago
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