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When I Had My Feathers
Before I had my feathers
I would stare at the sky;
see - birds flying, rising, colliding singing,shying,venturing -
and shout,“I will live to suck the marrow of life!”
Before I had my feathers
my Pulsing, Rhythmic red laid bare to the light
protected only by my pure down
“Surely, I will live to see the treetops.”
Then I flew.
down
drifting
away
- becoming stronger, thicker, opaque
And while winging across a whispering cloth of blue,
green fronds concealing, this liquid mirror buried deep; I saw
The wings I had so long sought -
were featherless.
the crystalline sky -
inverted.
And as the silk disappeared,
the sky fell from me
In a cloud of shed feathers.
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