Authors: Tal Streeter
Date Submitted: February 28, 2005
Article Type: Journal

In the sky. In among the billowing clouds. A kite at rest, still. A child’s kite.

On its back, the child.

A kite at rest, still. Something even our fine-feathered friends are incapable of achieving, this child’s kite in the sky with its passenger, unmoving. A point of stillness in the vast heavens.

Only a slight ripple on its skin—-the wind’s breath holding the kite aloft. This kite….any kite….this kite with a child’s hand holding its long line of string stretching back down to earth. The child perched there riding on the kite’s back, wide-eyed, embracing earth and sky. Astride a kite, kite and child, a still point in the sky.

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