Urban Diary

Skating away (on the thin ice of a new day)*

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They all wait for their turn. Like athletes competing in a version of the Winter Olympics, but for winged creatures.

They have an appreciative audience. We all gather up on the bridge. The professional photographers and the amateur ones. The ones with the long lenses and the ones with state-of-the-art mobile phones. The ice-cold wind presses…