Perils of Flight

Pieter Breugel, “Landscape with the fall of Icarus”, c. 1555-56
And no plough will stop
the plunge
see intelligent hands
whip lines
dreaming of being anywhere
but here
where Minos and Daedalus lose
their sons
and still the sun shines
Pallas’s prize
Presented to deaf ears
calloused eyes