Watch me as I fly

Soar over earthen-bound rooted bare trees

Feathers cut!- aerodynamically.

I shower the cinders- soft sighs from my eyes

Reflecting the wind in psychedelic rainbows

I am the sylph of the sun

Icarus with superglue

Sea buoys on gold and red

A ship at restless rest

I am the earth—flying

Riding

Raining in the wind to liven the living

Persephone and Diana, sisters in soil

Mutated Pegasus wings on their backs.

Watch me fly!

I am beautiful

I breathe with a hundred lover’s lips

Dancing as I died a thousand born-again deaths

I scream, I keen, I cry with the

Leaves Living Ecstasy.

Watch me as I fly?

I’ll teach you to live.

_Genevieve Perdue