Friday, March 7, 2014

February 5th, 2014: Exploding Eagles

The sky is overcast.

High tension wires stretch across my view of the gray-white sheet of sky overhead.

A Bald Eagle flies toward the point where one high tension wire connects to a tower. The wire is looped just after the clamp that holds it taut. The eagle flies into the loop and explodes in a blinding flash of metallic white. A few singed feather parts fall from the scene.

Another eagle meets the same fate.

And another.

Thomas Edison appears in the sky--only from the shoulders up. He's enormous. An over voice tells the history of the exploding eagles and how Edison saved them by creating a new coil that did not harm them when they flew into it.

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