"This is the phoenix the solution

Of a true perpetual motion

darting up from its own dust

On a wing that rides at rest."

from Now 

by Robert Finch

This young Bufflehead has not yet mastered flying.

Having spent more time on the slough we realized

this was a female distracting us as the young escape.

"The spirit on

its furious fins

flashing above

The sea of sense"

The Flying Fish

by Robert Finch