Another Gravity by Don McKay

Author:Don McKay [McKay, Don]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-55199-664-6
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2000-01-04T00:00:00+00:00

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Repertoire, technique. The beautiful contraptions bred from ingenuity and practice, and the names by which he claims them, into which — lift-off, loop-the-loop — they seem to bloom. Icarus could write a book. Instead he will stand for hours in that musing half-abstracted space, watching. During fall migrations he will often climb to the edge of a north-south running ridge where the soaring hawks find thermals like naturally occurring laughter, drawing his eyebeam up an unseen winding stair until they nearly vanish in the depth of sky. Lower down, Merlins slice the air with wings that say crisp crisp, precise as sushi chefs, while Sharp-shins alternately glide and flap, hunting as they go, each line break poised, ready to pivot like a point guard or Robert Creeley. Icarus notices how the Red-tails and Broadwings separate their primaries to spill a little air, giving up just enough lift to break their drag up into smaller trailing vortices. What does this remind him of? He thinks of the kind of gentle teasing that can dissipate a dark mood so it slips off as a bunch of skirmishes and quirks. Maybe that. Some little gift to acknowledge the many claims of drag and keep its big imperative at bay. Icarus knows all about that one.

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