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Tangled Flight

Tangled (fanciful) Flight

I held your knotted tail
flat cotton flow
with wind whipping me
                   wound and bound
teething a tether
                   seething struggle
in frantic flight
                   fight
                                       for futuristic visions
                   heralded horizons headlong
hopeful
to climb your crafted kite
                   surf
bright breezes
in twittered twilight
                   tearful
to ascend as near
as far
         as this will go

to whatever heaven now exists

attached to your rope
soothing tassel twirling
twisted up, tangled
                   verses sung, flung to vacuous clouds

where are my ears?
here is your clown
should we descend gently
to Aramis ground

who is the tapestry?
how heavy as a rug

what strength wind
to take flight in black?
eyes fear even the imaginary
delude reality

tickling red demons
bite false flesh
carry off as food
                   thought that sailed                    away
before buried
soft in sand.

40 lines free verse
1.16.23
1.24.23 major structure and grammar edits

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