Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EAGLES, by ELIZABETH A. WOODY


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EAGLES, by                    
First Line: Yellow paper planes fly
Last Line: As an edge in the sky.
Variant Title(s): Eagles; For The Taos Journey
Subject(s): Birds; Eagles


Yellow paper planes fly
pirouetting in pinwheel circles
carrying ciphered spirituals.
Sighing in wind
they unfold and lie in bare patterns.
One message from each soul above
clutching the bridge and dangerous edge.
In the tongue tickings of words
the flight becomes inaudible
stalks of paper eagles.
It flies. It round dances.
Farewell and our hearts
lie out there
touched once
and flown.
The writings sleep in intimate
destinations,
reigned, yet wild, un-named.
Downstream we cover in Indian blankets
touched gray with smoke
trilling the mass poetic flight.
An eagle whistles upon us.
People birthed, flown and earth caught.
A mirage to the one above.
A protective shadow slides the canyon's coolness
in prisms of water.
We melt as lather and return
to our bodies with river
sighs and current.
We've flown and landed.
The eagle waves away
turning the earth
as an edge in the sky.





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