A is for Arlee Bird

 

Source:  facebook

A Quick note before the official post:

This post is owed to two awesome people: First is its namesake who organized this thing way back in 2010 and has worked tirelessly since then to bring together this amazing group of people and organize this fantastic project.  I join with everyone else participating in saying THANK YOU!

Second is Konstanz Silverbow who is guiding me and others along the way.  He advised us to give credit where credit is due by making A stand for Arlee and I owe my thanks for that.  And now, the post:

 

A perpetual motion machine

with no magnets and no battery-

he is powered by his own imagination. 

Trading pins for thoughts and balls for words

he shifts his trade with time. 

But the constant moving,

the effortless timing,

the essence of the act remains.

Up and down,

left and right,

he catches and throws with ease. 

Others marvel at his skill

as he moves without pause

but he thinks of only one thing:

Toss.