Sunday, April 27, 2025

april 27

 I am crashing through layers of air

as if they were stories of a skyscraper

Wings mangled. Metal feathers 

corkscrewing down to stab the ground. 

I am gathering momentum. All my limbs 

waving, accumulating layers 

of trash and scrap and detritus

as I plummet through the ozone, 

through the canopy, through the waves

and sediment, all the way to the core

where it all burns off and I am left

a wisp of ash in the shape of a skeleton

continuing to pass through the Earth

and bursting through the ground

on the other side of the world, 

laughing


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