Spread my wings!
KW
On Sep 30, 2012, at 11:55 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Fly again!!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Kenneth Wolman
> Sent: 30 September 2012 16:21
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: preliminary snap: Hope
>
> The Amherst lady said it is the thing with feathers,
> and she nailed it. This morning
> it whirls around the room and
> doesn't shit on my head.
> I sit drinking coffee, a second cup,
> and feel soothed by a hope I cannot believe
> but only accept,
> watching "Gladiator" where a man's dual hopes
> are vengeance and a journey toward his family,
> an Odysseus sailing toward his own death
> and rebirth. I have died more than once,
> and yet emerge with my feathers shiny,
> still in place, awaiting the call
> to fly yet again, so long and high as they will bear me.
>
> KW
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