Pegasus
- Randolph Healy (Ireland)
Students
bob up and down, boisterous in thickets
of
language they think foreign to us.
A man
and a woman, leaders, puzzle over
Berlin Hugo Hagen fecit 1869
and
mile upon mile of emulsion is permanently altered
by
light bouncing off dazzling smiles.
"Fabless",
he says, "fabless", while she, behind guide book,
motions
left, so left they go, leaving the zinc chargers,
rain-stained
wings straining against stillness
not-veins
not throbbing on their thighs and bellies.
Images
of perfection untrouble
the
breezes that riffle life's lexicon.
Generations
rattle past like notes
in a
robin's call (run your fingernail
along a
comb) while the wind still gusts
species
streaming like bubbles from its touch
each
rainbowed shape (including us) a prelude to another.