Able Muse - homing https://www.ablemuse.com/taxonomy/term/148/148? en Homing https://www.ablemuse.com/v6/poetry/mebane-robertson/homing? <h2><p>Homing</p></h2> <p>You focus your eyes upon the beams,<br> Mark with Cancer’s crab the horse,<br> Mend your ripped coat—at the seams—<br> Elijha took by force.</p> <p>Your heart is the falcon’s heart<br> As you circle and circle round again.<br> A bird of prey must play its part<br> Dropping down through the wind.</p> <p>Your grace is wedding death to charm.<br> On the thick glove, you balance<br> Feathers ruffling the back of the arm<br> On the razor points of your talons.</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v6/poetry/mebane-robertson/homing?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v6/poetry/mebane-robertson/homing?#comments Poetry homing mebane robertson poems v6 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:11:03 +0000 Administrator 112 at https://www.ablemuse.com