This song is inspired by ancient Polynesian sailors who traversed the sea, guided by refractions of currents against their hulls, which told them the position of islands beyond the watery horizon. They were also helped in their journeys by the stars overhead, by their excellent memories and inherited knowledge, and by the presence of birds, who like to return to land, just as we humans do.

I'm not sure if those Polynesian islands hosted falcons, but above the farm that's now hosting me I see twin falcons flying overhead. By their agile movements they reveal the currents in the air, which would otherwise be invisible to me. Although I'm landbound, I feel connected with those ancient sailor poets, “whose eyes were gifted with unbounded vision” by the birds who showed them islands in the vast ocean.

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