A Free Inquiry Into Air 110721 (2021)

what am I to do with my imagination the person in me trembles there is still innocence it is starting up somewhere even now and the strange swelling of the socalled Milky Way and the sound of the wings of the bird as it lifts off what is coming what is true all the blood millennia drained to stave off the future stave off the armies on the far plains the gleam off their armor now in this birds eye as it flies towards me then over the sound of the thousands of men assembled at all cost now the sound of the bird lifting thick rustling where it flies overonly see it is a hawk after all I had not seen clearly it has gone to hunt in the next field the chlorophyll is coursing the sun is sucked in the chief priest walks away now where what remains of the body is left as is customary for the local birds Jorie Graham Embodies excerpt