But Athena, who values inventive thinkers,
made him a bird, masking his limbs
in mid-air feathers. His mind’s vitality
went to his feet and his wings. The bird
keeps an old name but never soars
and never makes a nest in trees;
she stays near the ground and stores her eggs
in hedges—fearing the high places,
for she doesn’t forget what Daedalus did.