Feather: a beseeching, a prayer, a calling forth and an asking to be held up; for plants, most purely ferns, which come from invisibility and open and continue opening; for birds, a wing covering that when set into motion conjures up lift and flight. To feather is to be physically open and to touch weightlessness or invisibility and to embody it.

 Grassland Fern, Kalamalka Lake Highlands, Canada