Where Can I Fly This Woman

 

 

 

Where Can I Fly This Woman

 

She is on a cotton voyage

from a canvas field that uprooted

her hands from the dirt

She was round, but a plow

moved her into a flat spread,

lifted her

into the evening entrance

of a green wind

Now she is a skirmish & unsung

with numbers

All the froth ironed out of her

White in the face of the sun

Where can I fly this woman

with her lifetime of warnings

her kindness scuffed with age

If I move her through the air,

she bites her bottom lip

and waits for an explanation.

If I lift her from the soil,

she bumps the clouds & apologizes

tidies up the stars as we fly,

until I am pleading , please,

stop cleaning!

She weaves me a handkerchief

out of the blue.

 

 

 

 

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Reviews

[Emily B]

Sometimes we feel like we have to apologize to breathe.Your words are strong and evoke so much of emotion and longing.

[Cdnsurfer]

Your imagery is strong and vibrant. A sense of wanting so peace and an escape from the drudgery that dulls the colours of life. Sort of ethereal and reminded me a Chagal painting, floating, colours vibrant, and sense of freedom. Yet even freed from the soil, this lady still worries about mundane things like cleaning, needing to be reminded to let herself go. Nice poem.

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An odd and intriguing piece with a captivating title. The portrait of the woman is quirky and iconoclastic.

I didn't like the poem on first read, but its charm became more apparent the second time around.

The line "Now she is a skirmish & unsung" still has me a bit perplexed...

[W.k.kortas]

A very appealing piece; it's a life story in a sense, a somewhat oblique personal journey, but it also has the feel of a myth or fable--even more so than is evident in most of your work. There is imagery here--e.g., the fifth and sixth lines, "the evening entrance/of a green wind"--that you just can't find anywhere else. At turns concrete and borderline mystical, this is fine, fine writing.