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Issue #3 |

The beautiful blue attendant I

The beautiful blue attendant I

sneak closely at her face

Her calm hems Everything

put together No wonder we can fly

 

How far up?

Even the sky ends

 

At certain velocities the film breaks The

other side

refulgent against black black

 

The way is this way

guided in blue

The gnats and little finches The

trashed traintracks

Anxious, whatever is left of soil The weight of a few of us

soon gone

 

The rocket will push

 

the diaphanous wingspan over

 

How far

up?

Even now on the ground she

makes sure

I stand near

 

We have two hands each we can paint with

It is glorious and shivering

It is light like light

author megan garr

Megan M. Garr is a poet and the founder of the literary & arts journal Versal. She is the author of two books of poetry: Terrane (MIEL, 2015) and The Preservationist Documents (Pilot Books, 2012). Her writings on inequalities in the literary world and its economy have been published in several anthologies, including Literary Publishing in the …

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