Hands, pale and folded, remind me
I was there before wings,
upon a ladder, holding a cup, waving goodbye;
Though I’ve no idea how or why.
It is not easy to forget myself,
worn as I am in this art of clothes,
mostly I am cloud white and corduroy,
a gliding vessel wedded to flight.
I am the determination to transcend,
to dip into the darkness
from a safety of days; though
once I fix things they tend to die.
I seek a Tarot of assurances, to know
that the difference between a swan
and a man merely lies
in twin aspects gone awry.
by Peter Valentyne
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