vogelfrei
Posted: May 13th, 2005, 11:09 am
vogelfrei
to be air or an
ashen streak of flight
or be silt:
i am outlawed,
free as a bird.
i am a scarecrow
made of doves,
i am my own flock
of feathers.
i am ragged,
i am windblown,
tied to field and sky,
and i fly.
and when cascades of brakish water
soak my wings, soak them down,
i am still flying, barely
scratching mud,
my tattered pinions not yet
brushing sludge
touching ground
the way my rack does.
i am quick
i am fleeting
i am swift
and dove and swallow,
a flitting vagabound
of hope,
a raggamuffin fowl fully fledged.
i am a tumbling a nomad of breath
with a rustling in his throat
while the sky
stands still.
flue ash and freedom
are hard to swallow.
to be air or an
ashen streak of flight
or be silt:
i am outlawed,
free as a bird.
i am a scarecrow
made of doves,
i am my own flock
of feathers.
i am ragged,
i am windblown,
tied to field and sky,
and i fly.
and when cascades of brakish water
soak my wings, soak them down,
i am still flying, barely
scratching mud,
my tattered pinions not yet
brushing sludge
touching ground
the way my rack does.
i am quick
i am fleeting
i am swift
and dove and swallow,
a flitting vagabound
of hope,
a raggamuffin fowl fully fledged.
i am a tumbling a nomad of breath
with a rustling in his throat
while the sky
stands still.
flue ash and freedom
are hard to swallow.