Southern Icarus

Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch

 
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace,
you climb, skittish kite . . .
 

What do you know of the world’s despair,
gliding in vast solitariness there,
so that all that remains is to

 
fall?
 

Only a little longer the wind invests its sighs;
you
 
stall,
 
spread-eagled, as the canvas snaps

and flaps
its white rebellious wings,
and all

the houses watch with baffled eyes.
 

Originally published by Poetry Porch. Keywords/Tags: Icarus, flight, flying, hang-gliding, kite, glider, wind, canvas, sun, South, southern, truck, unspooled

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