Outside my window, birds
on a telephone wire are evenly
and intricately spaced in strong wind;
tails twitching to keep a balanced distance.

Over the Reese River Valley, hawks
draw large circles in blue sky.
Jackrabbits watch from below
and wait for the downward draft.

From 100,000 feet in the air, a man
in the 1950's jumped from a balloon;
an experiment to see whether he would pop
into orbit or simply fall back to earth.

Along the beach in Cayucos, my son
and I unfurled a yellow kite.
It went higher and higher, met with clouds,
because it wasn’t tied to any hold.

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Lynne Bigley lives in Nevada where she works as a civil rights attorney. She has been published in the Red Rock Review and the Avatar Review.
E-mail: lynnepbigley at yahoo dot com  

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