Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Dancing On A Glass Table

Here at the edge of the world
Here on the surface of things
Dance on your glass-topped table
Soar on your featherless wings.

Dance while the music keeps playing
Dance til the tabletop cracks.
Plunge from the sky like a comet
Betrayed by softening wax.

Down comes the rain mixed with sunshine
Down come both hope and despair.
Down, the glass tabletop shattered
Icarus falls from the air.

The hummingbird flickers and hovers
The honeybee buzzes and stings.
Here at the edge of the world
Here on the surface of things.

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