Photograph by Bates Littlehales
The stark, primal profile defining
the great bird's ancient lineage,
silhouetted against the late
afternoon winter sun, rears back its
bony head and assumes its
syncopated conquest of the
bare-trunked old beech, towering
above encircling birch and poplar
naked to the ferocious cold of
the wind raking the forest under a
sky clad in creased and pleated clouds,
silver and luminous gold where the
fabric of the clouds are rent by
that same insistently triumphant
wind, claiming the landscape,
both aloft and defiantly below.
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