Ephemeral denizen of the dawn
Emblazoned on the waking
An aerosol archaeopteryx
Captured for a twinkling
On the heavens
Feathers and ancient bones
Silhouetted in the tracks of the sky
Like footprints in the new-fallen snow
Darkening blue where they tread
Rimmed with yellow, orange, purples
And their spectra
Before the blue
Flying still
Across the dome
(http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/birds/archaeopteryx.html)
(Raymond A. Foss)
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