Summer:
grain ripples in the wind;
red cows graze in green paddocks;
storks stalk frogs in a fen;
a wood rustles, bright above, shadowed below;
a hawk hovers, then hurtles.
A description worth pausing at. We have listed hovering hawks and other birds of prey before (see here) and I cannot remember whether this was among them.
Natural descriptions can occur in any fiction: historical, fantasy, sf etc. Poul Anderson never forgets the natural environment.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
What I thought of was that, instead of simply hovering, Anderson had that bird of prey HURTLING, striking at prey.
Ad astra! Sean
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