Today I specifically looked at line 14 and 15. "When we followed the hawk's slow deliberate arc?" Literally the phrase refers to the speaker and his brothers looking up at a Hawk in the sky and trying to follow its path on the ground. I picture the brothers running through a field and looking up at the hawk, not looking where they are going. Looking at its context in the poem I feel the words "slow and deliberate" in line fifteen are very important. They describe the hawk, but I think they very nicely contrast to the behavior of the brothers. The brothers are getting "lost" and "drunk," which are pretty much the opposites of deliberate.
Also, adding to yesterdays post, "dogs in June Dust and heat" could also be a contrast to the boys. In the Summer heat of June, dogs are not very active, but the brothers, on the other hand are.
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