WE think.
We are not mindless,
Yet somehow we sneak into the pretense
That we are.
...
FREE WINGS BURN UP THE SKIES.
I once flew up to the cloud
That kissed the top of the mountain above my house.
I expected to explode in purple, orange and red because that was the color the cloud was made from the sun.
...
The vow wasn't long or tainted with
Words dripped and clad of false enamor
They were tattoos -
Small scrawlings scuttled across my chest.
...
She stares in the mirror—
This girl with multi-hued hair
This girl with bluebell eyes that
Subtly shift colors with the colors she
...
I could no longer wait-
The wait for those months kept
Weaving into the
Pattern of an endless
...
She always knew the world was there—
A constant drum beating in her inconsistent life
Who she didn't know, was, Right.
Right was beaming on her like the full
...
Her wings were folded.
They seemed to be white
but from my view on
The ground, they were
...
I found her in 1944
She was tall and could
Easily be mistaken for a man
If looked at from behind
...
Her hair-
Knots.
She knows that
she has forgotten
...