Flight of Spoonbills

Posted on January 31, 2023 by Roger Gosden
Roseate Spoonbills
Unsplash: Julia Craice

The sun is setting in the west,

The Spoonbills fly with no rest,

Their wings are strong and they will go,

Until they reach their winter home.

(Poetic style of a Japanese tanka in 31 syllables inspired by API)

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About Roger Gosden

A British/ Canadian/ American scientist specializing in reproduction & embryology whose career spanned from Cambridge to Cornell's Weill Medical College in NYC. Married to Lucinda Veeck, the embryologist for the first successful IVF team in America. They retired to Virginia, where he became a master naturalist and writer affiliated with William & Mary. He also writes on Substack at What’s Hot in Fertility? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Gosden
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