after Iskandar Haggarty’s ‘Erasures’ in Moonchild Magazine
No angel-wings for me.
Instead, a barred owl’s.
I long to be able to move
through day and night
in silence.
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Laura M Kaminski grew up in Nigeria, went to school in New Orleans, and currently lives in rural Missouri. Her most recent collection, The Heretic’s Hymnal: 99 New and Selected Poems, is forthcoming from Babylon Books / Balkan Press in 2018. More about her poetry is available at The Ark of Identity.
Ah, yes, that barred owl, moving with such precision and grace, silently, even through a maze of branches, no stumbling, no collision, just perfect flight. Well we might want this, with our feet of clay, not some heavenly translation, but perfect grace and freedom here, in the flesh. So beautiful, Laura, and so true.
Thank you, Mary.
This is perfect. (Which doesn’t surprise me at all, because it has Laura M Kaminski’s name on it).
Smiles. Thanks, Tony.