A digital collage to go with a poem I wrote, titled the same: `````` Berlin Bird and you, young and foolish one keen to prove you're no longer a fledgling chasing the whims of your kin and kind take wing and lunge towards that thing, in the shade and stink of fruiting gingko trees, that sparkle caught in the trap of your eye. a sparkle of something new and curious you leapt before looking. your wings, unprepared by eons unable to support your bones in the water's embrace. and so the water claimed you, poor, lovely thing the shimmer of your wings, glittering silver panic. with your death the lagoon whispered a promise, asking only for your patience in return. and you, with quiet pride, waited still as stone in your grave only when the water drained did she make good on her promise and you spread your wings-- flew into eternal life. `````` Originally posted to my just-for-fun early web site, [Digital Rot](https://digitalrot.neocities.org/posts/2022-07-10-berlin-bird.html). Created in Affinity Photo.