Ode to the Entrepreneur’s Lover

how fine the feathers
          you have fastened around my heart,
sewn in with your belief
          of my anything
keeping safe your warmth
          that journeys with me everywhere.

even here

when the air trumpets past my ears                                        dream...
          and slips steeply down my sides
as I hurtle
          downwards

                    downwards

                              downwards

                                        in a freezing flush                                     that is our
                                                  of searing senses
                                        tugging at the looseness of my face
                                                  knowing that the moment
                                        just ahead
                                                  will hold me with a

                              - s n a p -                                                   back towards the sky
                                                                                          and cut a steady arc
                    of sails uncoiling                               on waiting streams of light
                              against my doubt           that whisper prayers
                                        to lift those wings

IJC
Vancouver Island, February 2005

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