Exceptional A poem in Terza Rima Frigate Birds by tfawcus

I watch the frigates wheel and gyre, aloft upon a broad-winged bow; they sideslip on the doldrum air while plankton swirls a mile below. When predators give chase and streak beneath the phosphorescent glow, these well-fletched arrows, black and sleek, begin their meteoric dive with sanguine throat and billhook beak. The flying fish that tuna drive break through a surface laced with pearl, like silver bullets as they strive, in vain, to beat the savage swirl of vicious beaks when wings unfurl. Recognized Author Notes Terza rima is a rhyme scheme that uses tercets and an interlocking pattern of rhymes, diagrammed as aba bcb cdc ded and so on. Traditionally, it ends with a rhyming couplet that rhymes with the second line of the penultimate stanza. Frigatebirds in flight in the Galapagos Islands. Photo: Frans Lanting/National Geographic Creative

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