Landscape with the Fall of Icarus he obeyed his father practicing in rich air of birds and the bees skating over azure blue until water wet his feathers in fear and exultation he soared up into day to a pointless ending eaten by a hungry sun our dominion of just gods a plowman and a fisher tending field and ocean saw nothing of that fall a shepherd heard a cry only a partridge in the bush the youth melted to sea in bits of wax and wings gone and never noticed the sheep need minding earth feeds one thing to another PH Coleman PH Coleman came to writing after years of teaching chemistry in university and high school because, of course, poems are a molecular art. His work has been published in The Mountain Troubadour (VT), Eunoia Review, Trouvaille Review, Neologism Review, and in six ekphrastic exhibits in Columbia and Kansas City, Missouri.
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