Flying Inside Your Own Body

 Your lungs fill & spread themselves,
wings of pink blood, and your bones
empty themselves and become hollow.

When you breathe in you’ll lift like a balloon
and your heart is light too & huge,
beating with pure joy, pure helium.

The sun’s white winds blow through you,
there’s nothing above you,
you see the earth now as an oval jewel,
radiant & seablue with love.

It’s only in dreams you can do this.

Waking, your heart is a shaken fist,
a fine dust clogs the air you breathe in;
the sun’s a hot copper weight pressing straight
down on the think pink rind of your skull.

It’s always the moment just before gunshot.

You try & try to rise but you cannot.

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