Friday, June 06, 2008

Pegasus



They say that Pegasus has giant wings
of swan or eagle, muscular and wide.
A hiker pauses at Pierian springs
and gathers feathers from the water-side
and finds them tiny, jeweled, malachite,
azure and ruby, gaudy thistle-fluff
or snowflakes spun from many-colored light.
These plumes could not be nearly strong enough
to give the gift of flight to any horse,
say literal minds. I raise for disputation
a question of aerodynamic force:
how heavy is a breath shaped into words,
can Pegasus, embodied inspiration
still hover on the wings of hummingbirds?


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2 comments:

Karen Salva said...

very clever!

Beatrice V said...

Wow....this vision is absolutely stunning Aisha! But the question is the weight of words.... maybe heavy.. maybe light... indescernible, impalpable, like the wind.. the same gentleness, the same force..