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Looking Back

A high silhouette, lucidly etched, a raptor, feathers flickering in sunlight, a thing carved and branded in a window of space, an osprey. It plunges, strikes the filmy dazzle a bristle of talons, and there on the face of the water it cleaves its own swooping shadow. Then it mounts the sky once more; a shimmering fish looks back at its last swim.

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