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knows that this balance of patience

appealing to humanity’s empathy and urging for more harmonious coexistence

threatening to swallow it whole

A winter storm approached

a lantern in the night sky

The Egret's Flight Coopers Hawk knows that this balance ofMigration was hereand before the winds carried it away, the Great Egret let its wing graze the surface of the water that had sheltered it through the seasons. The faint ripple it left behind was a memory in motionof patient hunts among the reeds, of moonlit nights standing beneath the stars, of quiet existence with the marsh itself. It was a farewell, not rushed or sorrowful, but full of gratitude for everything the water had given. Photograph by