Soaring Into the Skies

Crane Beach, Ipswich, Massachusetts

Terns are here.

Always at the same time.

Their nests are on dunes, nobody has the pass, do not even get close.

This one is circling above my head.

  Got it, got it. 

     Heading for the waves...

Of the Ocean

Allens Pond Wildlife Sanctuary, Massachusetts

A glimpse of the marshland and cruising Ospreys, makes me sense the ocean.
  I know that this path will bring me to the point
    where I step on the sand and the ripples come in to splash my boots,

   saying in their gentle voices: Stop Here...  

The Poetry of Flying

Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, Plum Island, Massachusetts

  ... in the streams of breaths through the feathers...  

Animated

Crane Beach, Crane Estate, Massachusetts

Terns are here...
 The place they know well... where they were born
      and come back each spring,
  find their mates, build nests and raise their young...

  A life story written on the beach...  

Well-Timed Crowds

Crane Beach, Massachusetts

The Trustees have opened Crane Beach to the public after months of being COVID-19 closed.
   At the time when avian crowds gather here to raise their young...
   ... or take a rest on their way to the north...

   ... the sand grasps their steps, the air their personas... 
    ... and in the midst of all this motion, a thought... I am just an outsider...