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...
by websitesca | Aug 4, 2013 | Poetry and writing, Uncategorised
‘The mechanisms of avian orientation are not fully understood.? In species that migrate in flocks, including ducks and geese, experienced birds may guide juveniles from breeding grounds to winter grounds and back again.? Birds are know to inherit an endogenous...
by websitesca | Aug 4, 2013 | Poetry and writing, Uncategorised
‘Tail-lights moved in the traffic flow like red-hot coals in lava streams, and sometimes the line of Interstate 35 appeared ahead of us, a light-course bending eastwards, not perceptibly founded on solid ground, but airborne.’ William Fiennes, ‘The...
by websitesca | Aug 4, 2013 | Poetry and writing, Uncategorised
‘Auroras, narwhals, wildernesses, infinite numbers: my restlessness, my appetite for snow geese, grew stronger line by line.’ William Fiennes, ‘The Snow Geese’
by websitesca | Aug 4, 2013 | Poetry and writing, Uncategorised
‘In accordance with their inherited calendars, birds get an urge to move.? When migratory birds are held in captivity, they hop about, flutter their wings and flit from perch to perch just as birds of the same species are migrating in the wild.? The caged birds...
