The Last of the Angels: Angel Undone

In the end the Angel folded her wings

and let her body fall through the cold air toward cruel stone

till at last she sparks and catches flame and crashes down into a turbulent sea

hair ablaze shedding burning feathers the color of a thousand sunsets
Copyright © | Year Posted 2008

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