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Wednesday, 27 October 2021

On Boughs Too Light- Celebrating Capability in Small Spaces


 There is a short poem, by Victor Hugo, sung as a round,  ‘Be like the bird pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and sings, knowing she has wings.’, which is what I imagine this bird, so elegantly alight here, might do, or just as well, I might imagine her doing, which seems quite consistent with Hugo’s maxim.