DAME.   6.    a. Prefixed as a title to the name of a lady or woman of rank; = Lady, Mistress, Miss. Now only fig. in personifications, as Dame Fortune, Dame Nature.
 
All the definitions that add,
Now only fig.
Write
not that
but the seagulls in the field
side by side,
shifting nervous webtoes
in the Aberystwyth muck
waiting for the bravery to explain
how much the love to fly.
 

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