by websitesca | Aug 4, 2013 | Poetry and writing, Uncategorised
‘The swift family has evolved almost exclusively for an aerial existence, and the needle-tailed swifts of Africa and Asia are the fastest of all birds in level flight, capable of attaining speeds of up to 105 miles per hour.’ William Fiennes, ‘The...
by websitesca | Aug 4, 2013 | Poetry and writing, Uncategorised
‘In the winter, swifts ringed in Britain are most often found in Malawi.? One in six perishes on the way. William Fiennes, ‘The Snow Geese’
by websitesca | Aug 4, 2013 | Poetry and writing, Uncategorised
‘Id seen the migration plotted as a clean, unbroken arc from Texas to Foxe Land, imagining the flight to be as easy and consistent as the line, a graceful curve from one point to another.? But the arc’s grace was a fiction.? The snow geese were improvising...
by websitesca | Aug 4, 2013 | Poetry and writing, Uncategorised
‘Everything airborne was travelling? northwards: winds, clouds, geese.’ William Fiennes, ‘The Snow Geese’
by websitesca | Aug 4, 2013 | Poetry and writing, Uncategorised
‘There were people I missed.? I felt the allure of familiar scenes, the pendulum of my impulses swinging back again, swinging back from what was new and undiscovered towards all that was known, named, remembered, understood.’ William Fiennes, ‘The...
