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Brown Pelican Taking Off  — Image by kenne

There’s a hard-earned lift in him—
not the easy grace of a gull.

He runs the length of the lake to get free,
one wing touches into a broken rhythm.

That last touch, that trailing wing—
that’s the past reaching up, then letting go.

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