Bibliomancy Oracle Prompt #1 (prey)

I know silence.  I know
standing apart and waiting
the approach of a fox,
the shadow of a hawk
sharper than any cloud
floated across mud.
I know that dark, implied,

The bite of it,
the promise,
the prayer a pulse can speak
staccatoed, without breath
or words.

***today begins my attempt at NaPoWriMo 2014.  That’s a poem a day for 30 days.  I went to Bibliomancy Oracle and got the following lines to use as inspiration for this odd and dark little sketch that might evolve into a deeper piece later on:

Don’t flinch. Don’t join in.
Resist the righteous scurry and instead
stand still, silent as prey. Slowly turn

from “Wife’s Disaster Manual” by Deborah Paredez