#sparrowflying

[nonbinary-nature-lover-jeri]

Scenes From My Walk - House Sparrow In A Bush Near My Home #ScenesFromMyWalk #SparrowFlying #HouseSparrow #Sparrows #SpeakForSparrows #SparrowsOfInstagram #Birds #Bird #BirdPhotography #Birding #BirdingPhotography (at Agua Fria, New Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CndFUc8vVeW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[bookmarkquinn]

Wiggy

By Mark Quinn Wiggy by Mark Quinn I once had some hair,it was firmly on my head.Then came the windand it was brown bread.It was sticky-taped down,I’m sure I said.I loved that head of hairthat was firmly on my head. It took off like a sparrowflying in the sky.It looked so pretty,flying up so high.Up between the cloudsit was swirling so free.If someone finds my hair,return it, I plea.

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#fun poem #poem #poems #poet #poetry #storm #weather #wind

[tanadrin]

"It's an unremarkable world--well outside the major Brasque interstellar routes, in a patch of almost uninhabited space that's not affiliated with any of the big spacefaring powers. You wouldn't have heard of it. The star is called Rau Tamaize, after one of the minor signs in Kintean astrology. No? I didn't think so. The planet itself has no name, just a letter. Rau Tamaize c, if you want to look it up. We had to stay in orbit for a few weeks once, making repairs after an unfortunate encounter with the Olfarinn.

"They're called--well, I call them the sparrowflies. I don't think they have a proper name. Their body is about as long as your arm, sleek as an aircraft, with eyes the color of jewels. They're covered in a light fur that gets longer toward their tails, which are long and colorful, like feathered banners that extend behind them as they soar through the air. But their wings are most striking of all: enormous, gossamer-looking things, but fantastically strong despite how thin they are. They catch the light of Rau Tamaize and shatter it into thousands of pieces, and when they come out of the clouds, it's like fragments of a rainbow that's broken loose from a storm, and has been scattered into the air.

"Rau Tamaize c is a rocky world, with a thick atmosphere. Not quite a giant terrestrial, but the air pressure is far too high to be livable at the surface for any Augrin or Entaro. And too high for the sparrowflies themselves--they've adapted to live perpetually in the air, riding the currents of their homeworld's thick atmosphere. They rise on the morning thermals, and in the evening they slowly descend, circling the whole planet in no more than a few days. Probably thousands, or tens of thousands of times in a single lifetime. They're dancers, you know. They move through the air in complex patterns, at their highest and swiftest under the noon sun, when they rise to the very edge of the stratosphere.

"How did such a creature evolve? They're quite unlike anything else on their homeworld. I've investigated the matter closely, and there are hints in their biology--maybe they were genetically engineered. Maybe they're not even entirely organic. Maybe they're not even from that world. I was going to trap some--I had the rig set up on one of our runnercraft, to sidle up to a flock one evening as they were entering their somnolent phase, and snatch one or two out of the air. It was fortune, a miracle, really, that stopped me. Quite by chance, I discovered they were sentient. Not like you or I. Their cognition is entirely different. That's why I didn't notice at first. I still shudder to think of what would have happened if I hadn't noticed. Their language is exchanged by subtle electrical signals that jump from wingtip to wingtip as they approach one another. The lightest brush; the fine hairs that rise from the edge of the wing brush against one another, carefully modulate the signal. And by such signals, and by the forms and patterns they make dancing through the air, they converse, they tell stories, they speak of their journeys through the air.

"For the sparrowflies, stillness is death. They spend their whole life in motion, you see. They never land. They never alight, not on any mountaintop or high promontory. They rarely descend below the deepest clouds, and they regard the storm-covered land below as a place of darkness and fear. That is the place their beloved companions descend at last, when their wings beat no longer, when they can hold themselves aloft no more. To trap a sparrowfly--as I nearly did--would be a monstrous crime. It would be an unbearable torment, if it did not kill them instantly from the shock. Their bodies are made for motion. Their whole essence is centered around it. They are creatures of the air and freedom, who have never known, nor could ever understand, what it means to encounter a wall or a prison of any kind.

"They tell stories, did I mention that? Not much like ours. As I said, their cognition is very different. I'm not even sure if they have a strong sense of self, an identity apart from their flock. And their flocks merge and split and merge again--they are carried along together. But they do have something like stories. It took a long time, many weeks of maneuvering my little ship near them, showing them that I wasn't a danger, making careful measurements of the electric signals they sent to one another, recording their dances, and running everything through various interpretation filters again and again. After a while, I began to work out the rudiments of their communication. It is subtle, absurdly polyvalent, intricate, yet at the same time startlingly simple. They have millions of signs regarding the air, the sun, the color of the clouds, the rising and falling winds, and even the position of the stars. But they have few signs for emotions, almost none for what transpires within their minds, almost no notion of history and none at all of politics or science or law. Yet they know of other worlds. They know of the perpetual storms of Rau Tamaize b, the gas giant which shines in their evening sky, and the cold hydrocarbon winds of Rau Tamaize e. As I said, their biology is very unusual; it's not inconceivable to me that perhaps some ancestor of theirs discovered a way to ride the most diaphanous winds of their sun, and journeyed to other worlds, to bring back news of their skies.

"Here is a story of theirs, since you ask. It's by far their longest tale. It concerns two souls--lovers, perhaps, after the fashion of their people. Brightest-Star-of-Morning, and Light-of-the-Sun. Brightest-Star-of-Morning fell one day, beneath the clouds, beneath the world, and was lost to Light-of-the-Sun. And so piercing, so intolerable was Light-of-the-Sun's grief, they descended into the realm of the dead to seek Brightest-Star. To dark places and on dark winds Light-of-the-Sun traveled, to places of near utter stillness and near perfect silence. And even beyond death they went, beyond the skies: to the end of the stars, where the sky gives way to unbroken night, where the only sound, the only motion, was the beating of one pair of wings. Through these, and other horrors the sparrowflies do not name, Light-of-the-Sun sought out Brightest-Star; and at long last, after many years, they were reunited; and out of darkness and death each led the other, until they came again to the skies of home. It is both a reverent and a joyful tale; their most ecstatic dances are in memory of the joy of that coming-home, of the dawn that saw death defeated, at least for a little while."

--Second navigator of the courier vessel Renegade, as overheard in Tamoshar Port

#tanadrin's fiction #the Local Sector

[agnezvirblyte]

White t-shirt with vampire's / wrestler's illustration and decorative black dots. The t-shirt's front is with small star's illustration and in the back there is big print with man's face and boxing gloves. Here is the link for my Etsy store - https://www.etsy.com/es/shop/SparrowFlies?ref=seller-platform-mcnav

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[vansparrows]

Wait, what does this mean? Coming Soon... real soon! #pin #pingamestrong #posters #draweveryday #sparrowflys #sweet #storesoon #online #diy #mailers #stickers

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[nonbinary-nature-lover-jeri]

Scenes From My Walk - House Sparrows #ScenesFromMyWalk #SparrowFlying #HouseSparrow #Sparrows #SpeakForSparrows #SparrowsOfInstagram #Birds #Bird #BirdPhotography #Birding #BirdingPhotography (at Agua Fria, New Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoTdCWlOwq8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[nonbinary-nature-lover-jeri]

Past Photo Favorites - Young House Sparrow up close #ScenesFromMyWalk #SparrowFlying #HouseSparrow #Sparrows #SpeakForSparrows #SparrowsOfInstagram #Birds #Bird #BirdPhotography #Birding #BirdingPhotography (at Agua Fria, New Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnIKdMZvcJq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[nonbinary-nature-lover-jeri]

Past Photo Favorites/Favourites - House Sparrow up close #ScenesFromMyWalk #SparrowFlying #HouseSparrow #Sparrows #SpeakForSparrows #SparrowsOfInstagram #Birds #Bird #BirdPhotography #Birding #BirdingPhotography (at Santa Fe, New Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmze__VPXI0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[nonbinary-nature-lover-jeri]

Past Photo Favorites/Favourites - House Sparrows in the snow. #ScenesFromMyWalk #SparrowFlying #HouseSparrow #Sparrows #SpeakForSparrows #SparrowsOfInstagram #Birds #Bird #BirdPhotography #Birding #BirdingPhotography (at Agua Fria, New Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmksRK4r1S5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[nonbinary-nature-lover-jeri]

Past Photo Favorites/Favourites - House Sparrows on a post #ScenesFromMyWalk #SparrowFlying #HouseSparrow #Sparrows #SpeakForSparrows #SparrowsOfInstagram #Birds #Bird #BirdPhotography #Birding #BirdingPhotography (at Agua Fria, New Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmalM-kt_rh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[nonbinary-nature-lover-jeri]

Past Photo Favorites/Favourites - House Sparrows in a leafless bush #ScenesFromMyWalk #SparrowFlying #HouseSparrow #Sparrows #SpeakForSparrows #SparrowsOfInstagram #Birds #Bird #BirdPhotography #Birding #BirdingPhotography (at Santa Fe, New Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmPWIFzPeOE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[nonbinary-nature-lover-jeri]

Past Photo Favorites/Favourites - House Sparrow In A Tree & Taking Flight #ScenesFromMyWalk #SparrowFlying #HouseSparrow #Sparrows #SpeakForSparrows #SparrowsOfInstagram #Birds #Bird #BirdPhotography #Birding #BirdingPhotography (at Agua Fria, New Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmLp6A9uZSj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[nonbinary-nature-lover-jeri]

Scenes From My Walk - House Sparrow Takes Flight #ScenesFromMyWalk #SparrowFlying #HouseSparrow #Sparrows #SpeakForSparrows #SparrowsOfInstagram #Birds #Bird #BirdPhotography #Birding #BirdingPhotography https://www.instagram.com/p/CXfC-_6rxuJ/?utm_medium=tumblr

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