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Fledging Day
The moment opens like a gift:
infant swallows on wobbly wings
fledge from the porch-corner nest.
Their twittering glitters in ecstasy
of blue freedom, swoop and skim
of graduation caps flung high.
Hawk and raven lurk,
a long migration looms,
the art of catching insects on the wing
yet to be mastered.
But for now, a whirl of swallow wings,
a celebration.
Fledgling Day
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