"When everything else has gone from my brain ... what will be left, I believe, is topology: the dreaming memory of land as it lay this way and that." Annie Dillard
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Wednesday, September 22, 2021
The Birds
They swooped, they swerved, they filled the sky with their acrobatics. I first spotted them as I was stopped in traffic on Key Bridge, but could only snap a faraway shot. It was later, once I'd reached the Car Barn Building terrace, that I saw the birds again. I'd stopped to look at the river and the towers of Rosslyn across into Virginia (how cool that I leave my state for class) — and there they were, circling and swirling, making their presence known. Were they up to no good? It was hard to tell at the time. But when I looked at the (top) photo later ... well, you be the judge ...