The Iron Bird

     High in the Adirondacks’, removed from modern day life a mountain man ventures down to a nearby city.  He is inundated with sights, sounds and smells, all foreign to him. After skirting around all human contact he arrives on the perimeter of an air port. Large metal objects are moving around in front of him, with high pitched sounds coming from them. Then with speed he has never seen before and deafening noise the objects move away from him, and then soar into the sky.  The Mountain man has seen birds before but these are not birds, they are too big. Watching closer, he sees other people walking up and into the large objects disappearing inside, and again these steel creatures soar into the sky. He waits, for many hours when darkness has fallen. Then the mountain man walks up to one of the large objects which are now silent. He looks at the airplane and still sees a giant bird. He cannot imagine why people would walk into the belly of the bird and then allow it to take them into flight. The old Mountaineer was so deep in thought, that he did not hear the security officer approach. He was suddenly aware of the air field constable’s presence. After a brief talk the security officer was satisfied that this old man was not a threat. The old mountaineer asked many questions, fell into deep thought and finally spoke: “It’s a large people mover, humm”?  With an expression of resolve he continued, “…and I thought it was alive. I guess I have a lot of catching up to do.” The old man concluded his endeavor, and slowly walked off, out of sight.

[07/29/2011]