Now available for purchase: Second printing of Peter Scartabello's book of poetry Honeysuckle Promise, which includes the poems: Late At Night Feathers Bleed Just a Little, Anvil of Dawn, Threshold, Haiku, Iron Wine, The Moon's Eye, Magnesium Sulfate, Cold Permanence, Learning to Fly, Only Hollow, Nested Light, Cold Rehearsal Spaces, Corporeal Machine, Suitcase, The Serpent's Milk, Human Hands, Spires, Crude Renderings, White Flesh, Foundations, In Darkness, Is, Underneath the Dollhouse, Frayed Dissonance, Clouds Break, Honeysuckle Promise and 11 earlier, uncollected earlier poems.
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Learning to Fly
Promises poured into a straw cup
seeping out
the blood running down your leg
Teething on a phallic stone
coddling flesh like a rag-doll
Pulling the rope taught around your neck
this is how we learn to fly.
Spires
Spires from a milkweed pod
lifting a feathery seed:
these mechanisms are ancient.
Tendrils of down
caressing a sky of airplane metal;
lifted upward under a pure stillness.
A nanosecond before inhalation;
your hand twitches subtly
in the dissected light of morning.
Your eyes can be the space
through which the dawn travels
and can give this journey breadth and meaning.