Turbulent times prompt a cormorant to still waters at Halibut
Point.
Immigrants of various races gather in sanctuary. The
cormorant stands on immense incongruous feet.
It's adaptation to deep diving comes at the expense of
buoyancy and waterproofing. The cormorant comes ashore periodically to dry its
wings to stay afloat. Those wings beat laboriously to keep it in the air unlike
the soaring gull. Its dense leg musculature excels on the chase but burdens its
flight.
Nevertheless it flies. It out-swims fish under water then
takes to the air.
It maintains a regal posture at the edge of the quarry as it
does along the rocky ocean shoreline.
On land it appears more wistful than saturnine.
Its flight may be termed expedient but it does transcend
distance and gravity. It strains to work itself up off the water. It launches
easily from a promontory.
To look steadily at a cormorant is to see the embodiment of
a hunter in its niche.
It looks back through a wary turquoise eye, holding the secrets of its sovereignty below the surface.
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