Monday, February 7, 2011

Returns

Flocks of birds flying too high to recognize are heading back north. Hundreds, sometimes thousands, soar above this tiny town and then are gone.

I wonder if they fly a little faster when heading north. I wonder if they are giddy with the thought of returning home. I imagine the first-year migrators a little pouty and indignant in the autumn when they have to leave all they know.

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