yesterday coming home from the nature area we saw sandhill cranes flying the way they do not in formation, languidly, like swimming in air. they seem prehistoric and in their own time no matter what goes on down here, and their movement massages the modern mind.


painting by Jill Mulleady, “A Fantasy of Transcendence and a Preoccupation with Downfall and Ruin” (2019), oil on canvas, included in Fight-or-Flight at Swiss Institute