ICARUS Redeemed by jack mothershed airborne ICARUS reaching upward not for the sun just cloud base rising on giant hot hollow thermal clear straws of air hunting now for that one straw that one hollow weed not in the wind weed that is indeed wind hunting for that one vibrant hot air jet with a yen to race to cloud base so many of no girth too many too short so few to find so soon else be pulled to earth few see the red tailed hawk on the wing from above fanned tail chestnut-red maybe salmon probably a long way from wing to water bird to fish cerulean sky to primordial sea if the red tailed were the end of evolution that would be enough someday wing flapping may be an option for humans right now finding a thermal is required the red tailed hawk below has found a thermal he is spiraling upward rapidly so it is a strong thermal but his circles are pretty tight too tight for a paraglider a thermal elevator to cloud base twenty five feet per second fifteen hundred feet per minute it could be in the odor of composted leaves heated in the hollow of a humid nook until that nook becomes a big tea kettle with an almost silent whistle it could be coming out of that rocky couloir each rock gladly giving its heat to the more and more rapidly rising air rocks are not altruistic no hah hah they like to be warm yes hah hah but even rocks understand the notion of a point of diminishing returns one hundred fifty degrees F is enough give that heat to that rising air thanks says the rock thanks says the rising air thanks says the rock above it and the one above that and the next the next a hundred feet hundreds of feet thanks says the rising air becoming an entity now growing like a snowball in reverse temperature and direction riding this rocky crease in this mountain cheek becoming a locomotive of speed and diameter all the hot air cars singing we will we will rock you going up? whap! got it jumbo jolted by a twenty mile per hour pillow train world's fastest runner could catch it if it were horizontal whudududududup! the canopy above collapses in shock i am twirling countering the twirling stabilizing the canopy banking butt slung toward thermal wall finding the optimal centrifugal force fugueing spiralling paraphrashing jerry garcia riding that train high and no pain eureka! going to the top with a pounding heart feathers ruffled but intact no myth no magic ICARUS acronym not anachronism I Can Ascend Reaching Upward Skillfully ICARUS redeemed --------------                             awaiting time to construct a better graphic

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