Thursday, January 21, 2016

on seeing a plane in a starless sky

one red star
 a roving mars

the only light
 in an ink black
  dismal night

   though told we live
  with wonders -



 I have
 doubts

  squatting low
  on the rocks
  fearful as ever of
fire

flying machines
 with red tails
  like fishing lures

as unfathomable now
 to our understanding
as in the days of icarus

but now
 even the stars
  have abandoned us

-is rising our only aspiration?

how can we fall
 with no light
  to melt our wings


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