1.
Pedal!
Keep pushing pedals!
Whoomp! Owie! Her knee bleeds.
She cradles her blue bike, re-mounts.
Shoves off.
2.
W-o-b-b-l-e.
Handlebars lurch.
She pedals, looks ahead.
Her bike grips, flies. Helmeted hair
whooshes.
3.
Zig-zags,
he lunges, schusses,
vanishes in a dip
a plume of snow signals a crash.
Where’s Hervé?
4.
Pants flap
his jacket snaps
poles flail, he surfs the snow
somehow stops, hops the chairlift
smiling snowily.
5.
Slap slap
Splash kick kick thrash
Head up head down, she swims,
grabs the pool’s edge, gulping water.
Three strokes!
6.
Water,
Friend: when she floats.
Relaxed: she greets turtles.
Stretched: choreographed motion,
Snapper.
7.
Credits: James Horner, Ile Bonaventure, Québec
Flap flap
ooo-ah ooo-ah
Northern Gannet’s young wings
strain for their first cliff-top take-off:
Nothing.
8.
Fledglings
catch thermal drafts.
Birds with crowns washed with gold
ride the windy elevator.
Plunge deep.
Credits: James Horner, Ile Bonaventure, Québec
