Streaming into heavens through string.Streaming into heavens through string, solitary child descends on a rag tail and paper ailerons what if she could soar open the back of her heart into wings, what celestial expanse then, what blue she wants greatest in number to float into would float into her, with equal reason why did teacher have to say Pharaoh's daughter could not behold blue no word for it, no hieroglyph river and nothing else muddy from under the muddl shade of canopy swagged throughout barge how could she have trawled her regal fingers through blooming or brown to say what Nile was the child could not say ocean unles azure current ocean flowed by the agency of could not say heavens paper eagle plunging, no wind unles sad J. C. TODD is a contributing editor to The soaked Boat. She is the author of pair chapbooks, Nightshade and Entering Pisces, the one and the other published by Pine Press. Copyright World verse Incorporated Nov/Dec 2001 |
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