Monday, October 05, 2020

After Icarus

perhaps it was found on his molten wings

a message inscribed with the sun in discarded gleams

bleeding into the sand

in a scalding froth receding receding in his burning hand:

"purity of intention is the only one

and indivisible dream" but those who found

this had floated to the shore

kept silence

for a thousand years or more.


mary angela douglas 5 october 2020

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