“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.” Terry Pratchett Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. Edgar Allan Poe Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. Carl Sandburg

My article on Sandhill Cranes, originally published as a Facebook Note was republished here. http://monessasmontage.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/naturalist-and-poet-ray-zimmerman-on-sandhill-cranes/comment-page-1/#comment-333 See more of my origianl writing at http://rayzimmerman.weebly.com