Air by Mordicai Gerstein Air is everywhere. Why can’t I see it? The sky is made of air. Is air blue? 5 Air smells like roses sometimes, or fresh-cut grass; gasoline or rain or skunk. 10 Birds swim in it and so do butterflies, bees, bats, and jumbo jets full of people eating snacks from seat trays. Swimming in air is called 15 flying. Why can’t I do it? Wind is air that’s going somewhere; it musses your hair, 20 and whistles in your ears. It tears leaves off trees and blows them away. Sometimes, it blows the trees away 25 and houses too, and whips the seas into foamy mountains that collapse and crash,