Photo of a double-crested cormorant--a fairly large black bird with a long, slender neck and face with featherless orange patches under the startling blue eyes--"sailing" in left-facing profile across the satin shimmer of a green and gold river canal with eir wings lifted and spreading open like the sails of a ship. The sunlight is bright if smoky, and the colors of the water swirl like spilled oil as the cormorant makes eir majestic voyage and dries eir feathers in the morning sun.