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- SKY
Carried by the wind
Vast shoots them into the air.
Highly complex the slightest breeze deposits
Huge numbers.
A mysterious fabric
sucked upward.
High pressure like other engines
Rapidly takes off
Overcoming the pull of gravity.
Flying engine
At a moments notice,
Launch themselves
Running into the wind.
Their turn comes.
Exertions of the gale
To drop to nothing,
Swooping down
Time on earth to resume.
Effortless, earth-gruelling flights.
Exploit a different kind of air current.
Gain altitude,
Spiral upwards warm air.
Beating wings distinguishing detail,
Soft swish of wing deduce from echoes
Signals of great benefits.
Stray far
Begin by travelling north-west
Change seems to be the length and the temperature of the night.
Broad and different
Oxygen enriched,
The atmosphere gets steadily cooler.
Extraordinary beauty,
A gauzy sheet of cloud
Rapidly changing plumes.
The clear dark blue of space
Visitations and rare times.
Emptiness of space,
The moon has no wrapping
Discharged,
A by-product,
Caught again.