12/22/10 the inspiration of birds

They are so delicate, their parts and features so light, airy like the element they (flighty ones) live in. Feathers. What other invention is so ingenious--little vanes and vanelets and hooklets and strands and they can be messy but then be preened into order. The feathers can hold you swimming or flying, or I should say also dreaming. And the bones the superlight bones with little structural lines all in them. Airy, cavenous bones, bones to fly. And my little belly bits, if I were a bird. A crop, short stomach, small organs. All to make me more compact and fling-able. I can fling myself up,over, around and down. I can fly, so compact and then stretchy. I love to stretch.