Mortality In Flight

Inspired by a ride on a very fast bike... wafts of smoke and apples custard, autumn, damp, decay forgotten roses over blown black berries blet away rubber hot on tarmac methane, lactose, chips and fires smears of leaves of shedding trees made ghosts beneath his tyres the thrust, the thrill, the shuddering sensation of vibration illegal speed, adrenaline such dangerous elation accelerating recklessness in swerve, in weave, in chase catching breath and missing beats defying time and space the fear of death, of love, of life a shadow's blink, a distant call my lover has a nose for speed and I am in my lover's thrall what madness is this motorbike this dark and risky wild delight unworldly joy, insanity mortality in flight by Gail