16. Kestral

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