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Vulture Redemption...

Turkey Vulture is
a sweet spring breeze of decay --
Catharsis Aura.

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Ruffled feathers, hunched-up,
weird, blood-red featherless head bobbing,
lurching awkwardly around a pungent bloated carcass.
Loud wings like frenetic helicopter blades
echo in the quiet of a voluptuous shaded forest.
No need to sneak up on it's prey.
Not mysterious, surreptitious, and sagacious like the owl.
Or bold, noble, and romantic like the sea hawk.

The Turkey Vulture.
Scientific name: Catharsis Aura,
Catharsis--to purge, purify.
And Aura--breeze, spirit, or radiant and luminous light.
Golden purifier or purifying breeze.

Hints of the vital and irrepressible life forces
teeming in decomposing matter and refuse.
Life--giddy and determined and messy.
Catharsis Aura--A cleanser and a sorcerer.
Alchemist.
Humbly, persistently, greedily, maintaining
the circle of renewal by transforming death into new life.

In legends of Egypt,
vulture was a manifestation of the mother goddess.
She devours corpses and restores life;
she contains the pulse
of the endless buzzing blooming chaos of existence,
and the ceaseless transmutations of our temporal reality.

Or sometimes,
vulture appears in myth as a clown or a child--
a newborn, reborn again and again
into transcendental realms.
An awkward infant, a fool,
whose wisdom,
when seen through prosaic eyes,
appears as folly or innocence.

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In another moment,
out of the forest,
floating above,
propelled by invisible forces,
spiraling.

Kellie Rose Pearson, inspired by "God of the Hinge"