Reflexions: Reading in the present tense , Ingrid de Kok and Mark Heywood continue to invite established and younger writers and other creative artists to reflect on a text that moved them, intellectually engaged them, frightened them or made them laugh. Our reviewer today is Julia Martin who considers Horizon by Barry Lopez. In the following two weeks our reviewers will be Jacob Dlamini and Angelo Fick. *** One moment from Horizon, the final work by Barry Lopez, has kept returning to me since the lockdown. It’s 1987 and Barry, my friend for many years, is travelling through Namibia. Somewhere in the Kgalagadi, then the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, he notices a pale chanting goshawk, a predator whose hunting depends on depth perception, in the top of a dead tree: