a great title for a rock group but br from this week, fact or at least br truthish. species have been found br to travel many thousands of miles br across land and sea br and don’t you wonder how and br aren’t you that little bit envious? br nature’s aerial hitchhiker-backpacker-caravanner br wow br br seems they (they? how did the word br get around? snail-mail?) br learned (learned?) this trick br of sneaking into the wing-feathers br of migrating birds. and anyway the birds in this br symbiotic relationship are thought br to tuck them in there (which came first, br the chicken or the snail?) as an br inflight snack, though evidently br missing one or two who br br when they get to the dropping-zone br (more questions – how do they know? a br well-developed sense of smell?) br paraglide, dismount, unload without a word br of thanks – you know the type – and make br themselves at home, though in an br eliotesque way, they arrive with what br they have not left, and in a garden br outside time, and in a place br they’ve never left behind… and we’ll just never know br whether it was wanderlust or simply br Intelligent Design br br it’s as simple, wise, and beautiful br as any poet might imagine and br beats surrealism at its own game br or as the critics put it, extends br the parameters of vision.