Friday, December 10, 2010

Albatrosses

Bones, muscles, feathers and wind;

They glide for hundreds of miles without a flap,

Wings locked wide, catching the sky

And sailing upwards, then hugging gravity

To plane seaward, in effortless undulations.

Never touching earth for months on end,

They hurtle up, or weave downwind,

Catch the crosswind and head for the sun

Then turn down into the veering breeze,

Riding out tempests and blizzards, undaunted,

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