Snowbirds in Summer

On egrets, new artwork, and a film poem

I can’t quite remember where I saw an egret for the first time, but it was probably on the Kenyan plains, where cattle egrets are a common sight, following herds of buffalo. Buffalos are gigantic creatures, often wallowing in pools and rising from them shimmering, their grey hides dyed black by the wet mud. Demonic things, those huge curving horns carve…