Can You Tell How a Hawk Waits Stealthily?

The drawing of the heronry

Is ink intertwined and spooky.

In Armitage’s Poetry

Of Birds, the heron, notably,

Vouches for Hamlet’s sanity.

Old French heronçeau was subtly

Corrupted to hernshaw, duly

Thence to handsaw, and you can see

Now why Hamlet said, sensibly,

He’d notice hawks in heronries,

Places where hawks ought not to be.

You squint at the sketched, inky trees,

Whose twigs can seem like beaks and knees.

Are herons what heronries breed?