ENCYCLOPEDIA UTOPIA

. . .

I have known water and sky.

With gills I breathed, and now, within the blink of an eye I fly, faster than any run. 

I settle. Sunlight falls through my translucent acrobatic wings. 

At once I gaze above, below, and either side.

I feel the history of my three hundred million years pump my body's beating heart. 

I know these things, not through the learning of humans, but through the slow and certain change of time: of ancestral blessing deep within my kind.