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Wise piece, Jill. Broadly aware and highly specific and very powerful
realization.

On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 8:37 PM, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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>         WHAT I DON’T KNOW ABOUT PEREGRINE FALCONS
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>         I’m not sure I have that patience of circling
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>         or the floating intensity to spy a rodent among weeds
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>         and I have no idea what magnifies or frames
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>         an avian horizon or how air lifts and drags
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>         that grip on flight or how inexplicably --
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>         not unlike the way a gush of sunlight flames
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>         or how quicksilver instinct leaps -- as the darting
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>         wagtail or noisy miner erupts and boldly chases you
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>         yes, you mighty air creature, what gives
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>         They have only small flittery wings, beating
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>         and chiacking, surely that’s not the same
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>         as peril, loss, as coming to an end, that especially
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> Jill Jones
> www.jilljones.com.au
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