How is it a bird can be on the ground
and in one motion of its wings
be flying? As if being on the ground
and flying leads to the other.
I have never flown as easily as I see
birds release their feet, be in
the air, have a sense of knowing where
they’re going immediately. It’s a struggle
to fly, to let go of what I know,
where I am, to pick a direction and trust
some destination unseen. Every day birds
do this. And I just wonder, as a child
of Nature, why it’s so hard to fly.
-Byron Hoot
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