Angel With Silver Wings
© Surazeus
2025 09 09

If my foot-shadow treads the broken ground
with eager curiosity to know
undulating shape of our puzzling world,
I may feel fruit tree blossom in my heart
to offer shelter of empathic joy
where the broken may find haven to heal.

Ardith leans against the telephone pole
and puffs the cigarette with nonchalance
as wind blows yellow skirt around her knees
while she watches black cars glide down the street
that weave around horse-dragon wagons with bales,
and ignores her intense desire to sing.

Turning toward airplane hangar in the field,
Ardith strides straight to the vanishing point
that gleams at still point of the universe
bright as absolute zero of the sun
deep inside flashing core of the white whole
that spirals into zillions of galaxies.

Waving to her husband by his airplane,
Ardith gives him beef steak sandwich and beer,
so he wipes engine grease of callused hands
and eats while she sits by him in the wind
and reads his favorite story from the Bible
about the shepherd who defeats the tyrant.

Pressing yellow hat with ribbons and lace
firm on her head in fierce propeller gusts,
Ardith waves as Richard soars into clouds,
and grins as she pictures him in her mind
as Earendil, angel with silver wings
who bears the scroll with message for mankind.

Though stars look very different tonight,
as Richard flies fragile tin can with wings
more than ten thousand miles around the Earth,
he dreams about the hour he will return home
for Ardith shines as his beacon of hope,
glowing brightly through gloomy smoke of war.

After dropping bombs on tank factories
so sprawling complex of buildings explode
in scarlet bloom delicate as the rose,
Richard flies silver plane across the sea
where the White Ship crashed in the Norman rock
so William Adelin drowned in state power.

Old ghosts of her ancestors haunt her steps
as Ardith walks through the shadowy house
where her doll with curls rode the oakwood horse,
so she bakes apple pie she eats alone
as angel-winged airplane falls from Heaven
and crashes burning in the howling sea.

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Orpheus appears before Richard who lies on the sandy beach beside his wrecked plane, then plays lyre of Mercury while he leads his soul down into the Grand Canyon where Persephone gives him an apple.

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