Carol Emshwiller - On Display Among the Lesser

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On Display Among the Lesser

by Carol Emshwiller

Those who look to the clouds … those who swear by the moon … those who say they understand the

stars … That's not us. We're here, in the land of the far, far, far … east of some and west of others. It's

we who know the world, from north to south to middle. We see it all spread out. We live above, and

soar. All others are our meals. Not a one that isn't. We, cliff dwellers, baskers in the sun, dancers,

keepers of the seasons and of time and of all the directions.

How ride the sky grid? How ride the thermals? How be the one on the top of every pinnacle? Be us. It's

the only way.

We're known for our beauty, and I, the largest and most beautiful even of my own kind. Always a sharp

intake of breath when I spread my wings. Who could help it? My red, my black and white, my

iridescence ….

What is there to fear for creatures such as we? Masters of the air? And I, the largest.

What's to fear—that is, except the mobbers? Only the mob of the small and irrelevant ever forces us out

of the sky, all the way down to where we have no choice but to hop and limp. Flutter. They're experts at

blows to the head but they're too small to kill.

· · · · ·

I had left the perches of our precipice. But first I'd hopped about the dance platform for no reason than

for joy. I had flapped and strutted. (I had no mate yet though I had my choice of all of them. Who would

have what it takes to be my consort? So far there was not a one equal to me.)

Then I'd soared away, cried out good-bye … to no one … to everyone.

My first meal that morning was poisonous snake.

After that I thought to get myself a lookout from among the lesser before she could call the alarm, but she

was quick. I raised a whirlwind of dust for nothing.

Then I thought eggs—little speckled brown ones.

· · · · ·

It's a long time since I felt fear. I remember it from when I was a chick. I pushed my brother out of the

nest … it had to be. Later, I fell out of the nest myself and was almost eaten by a fox. By then I was

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