Blue Worlds Surround Me - Hari Meyers

Larry Robinson Lrobpoet at sonic.net
Sat Jan 17 03:29:37 PST 2015


Blue Worlds Surround Me



through twisted alleys in the labyrinth he led me
we were locked in our skin and lost there together
son of a famous father, who else could I turn to?
but dark was his mirror, as dark as the maze—

our shadows long and sudden on new discovered walls
revealed by morning sun a prison, vast but roofless 
in one direction alone the hope of freedom was held 
above us stretched an alluring, crisp sheet of sky

from his fertile mind, full-blown, the idea emerged
       a brief, bright flare in the forge of his famous cunning
delicate and difficult were the means of our egress
       feathers and wax he found by the faith he had fostered

neither too high nor too low he constantly cautioned
      moisture at one end, heat at the other threatened
the fastening and weight of the wings he had fashioned
with slow, prudent purpose; yet mine fluttered impatient

  the thrill and the glory of it, the feathered ease
    as I sailed higher than ever, higher even than he
blue worlds surround me, ocean, heaven, weave and whirl
I beat my exultant wings... higher, they say, higher

    a dripping of the loosened wax, a scattering of feathers
                	    headlong flung, furious falling, wings and limbs atangle
                 	    no ears to hear the swift spiral splash of my plucked ball of body
     no eyes to see the carpet of seaweed close and congeal as waters swallow me

	- Hari Meyers
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