First boost given by childhood privilege
Level defined by class, income
Indicate potential, an esteemed image
Gains permit exclusive decorum
Height obtained owes society's support
Top promotion opens rosy resort
Tariff emphasis applies gradual gravity
Wherewithal relies on deals won
Obligated to uphold palpable authority
Freedom creeps halting, a lizard
Lured from dimness, limbs doused in sun
Impulse to replenish is permission
Granted by spider vagabond home spun
Hung in a piano accordion alter
Tumult affords torn threads a small falter
Takeoff administered via mishap
Waiver sails on wind universe determines
Oracle unfolds glory, God's map
Sixteenth June 2022
Written for Contest: Flight Two
Sponsor: Chantelle Anne Cooke
A Sunken Pink Camaro
Tropical fish.
swim in and out of the windows
of a sunken pink Camaro.
I dive, leaving a rainbow stream
of billowing bubbles
Above on
the timber pier, someone
with a piano accordion
plays chiming French music,
while nearby old fishermen
swap vivid fish stories’.
Through ripples,
of clear water I see,
children dancing to tin drums
beaten by a lively,
ivory- toothed Jamaican.
I surface,
with a turquoise-tailed
mermaid, perched on
my left shoulder.
Some how,
I have rescued her
from a sunken pink Camaro
Suzanne Delaney
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