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SKY TALK Tidal pools are black totem markings on shields of chocolate-brown mud. A tiny, perfectly circular island shrinks to green culture on a slide. The land opens up like a paint-box: we see fields stitched into the earth, five thousand years of our patchwork--birds got the picture long ago, have been thanking us ever since. The coastline swings like a pendulum, we see clearly where the ocean drops over the edge of the world. We fall upwards, grow new wings. Some will sleep on ...