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Submitted to Contest #314
I wish I could live like a bird. Flap, flap flap, flap flap. And die like a bird: flap, flap, flap… flap… thud. Circling and diving, majestic and independent; unafraid of mortality or an afterlife. Even the humble, common birds still manage to be so wonderfully celestial. The ones filling my sky now are swifts: darting, glossy-brown harbingers of the start of summer. It’s forecast to be a hot, humid one this year. I back away from the windowpane and stretch my neck back and forth. A cramp has formed from straining too long to look up at th...
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