Rudiments of Flight
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Both revelatory and sensuous, these poems convey passion that trumps death, beauty that shines through shame, and love that is everlasting. Venturing to the edge of the known world and beyond—bearing unflinching witness to the terrors and ecstasies to be discovered there—this compilation is a kaleidoscopic intertwining of the worlds of humans, nature, myth, and spirit. As it explores fragility and pain, it will interest both female readers as well as those influenced by Jungian though.
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Rudiments of Flight - Frances Hatfield
Nude Descending a Staircase
Imagine the scene
where the body plunges
through a plate of glass
in very slow motion,
the invisible wall shatters
into a puzzle of light, the shriek
of splintering shards winds down
to reveal a choral ode
both jubilant
and tragic
and let’s say you are the glass
and love the body,
you can see
it coming and know
it won’t stop,
what chance do you have
against that immortal
weight set ablaze
by time,
and there are two worlds
you try to keep apart
with this marvelous invention
of yourself,
and who are you fooling
that you are made of something solid
when you are really only liquid light
fresh from the fires
of your birth,
descending to earth
slower than the eye can see,
and now shattered—
the place you once stood
remembers wind,
the bed
will be baptized
by rain
as you fall,
piece
by shining piece
into the abyss
that is the shortest
distance
between us
The Talking Cure
Tracking bloody prints
through halls of mirrored fractals
down broken trails of memory
of church basement—nursery—
sewer—crypt, by the time
you know the real reason you came
it’s too late
the locked gate to the forbidden
room gapes open
the snarls of the guard dogs
hang like icicles in the air
and the array of weaponry that once
worked so well, turns out
to be cardboard, a set prop
for a war drama that has no beginning
and may have no