Leaping Aero Planes Poem by Robert Rorabeck

Headdress of reindeer up in the pullulating
Lambs,
As we’ve been born in the morning from
Another hospital
While the parks spring like
The wetted wounds of unwedded kisses-
As the rattlesnakes sleep:
As the sharks sleep,
Underneath the curtains and blinds of adultery,
As another séance goes through the class,
Until the children spill out like roe
From the uvulas-
And the zoetrope spins: a Ferris wheel if the
Mirage of my heart in the desert,
While the poisonous snakes kiss another
Thing,
And the classes continue forever underneath
The mirages of the forever leaping aero planes.