Yamatorige - feathers of a copper pheasant

Yamatorige - feathers of a copper pheasant

Somewhere high above

the most precariously placed

of snow-capped peaks,

bathed in those long golden

shadows of Fuji ..

She first came into our view

as if in slow motion

and began to carve a series

of near perfect circles,

figure of eights and a single

double helix with just

the tip of outstretched wings ..