<anania's "somewhat gray and graceful"> 2004-04-27.7:06 p.m. Somewhat Gray and Graceful Michael Anania Left behind. Consider the frayed horizon and the likelihood of birds. Someone in a photograph glances upward and flight extrapolates itself as a story proposed by one thing and then another, each surface accomplished, each act a definition, the self in a prospect of birds, flight arrived at in the unconsidered assumption of flight, finches sprung forward and eased against the edge of sight, the improbable reach of this and that, somewhat gray and graceful, doves in their white rush like breath anticipating speech. back /& forth /& frosting names are often sad