Title: The Question of Gulls

Author: Dinah Hawken

In: Sport 23: Spring 1999

Publication details: Fergus Barrowman, November 1999

Part of: Sport

Keywords: Verse Literature

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The Question of Gulls

Answers are everywhere. The question could be simple,
it could be lying like air in the wing of a gull.

It could be lying like air in the bone of the wing of a gull,
or like the air the wing is lifted and held by

while the gull is lifting and lowering and lifting
its wings. It could be a question of wonder, of taking off,

a question of desire, a venture—it might not be
the gull, or wing, or even the air, not even a feather, it might

be the winging and the sheer momentum of
winging open eyed in open air over an ocean