Myra Schneider
Bird 
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I am wings
springing from breast, sweeping back, each curve echoing
the other. Meaning is space.
As I thrust forward my wingspan unnerves you. As I soar
do you yearn to encompass my power?
See how
I enfold head and heart in flight. Map out
my hungers and dangers, the complex of my parts. Feel my weight
and weightlessness,
bone mesh, skeins of blood, speckle and lie of feathers.
You will never explain the egg
where I began, dig out the deeply bedded knowledge
that guides me through dark and light.
Hold me down
and I will rise up above the crests on fierce waters,
above the sheer of rocks, above the heave and scramble of moors.
And I will be
here, there, within you, everywhere,
my flung wingtips longing to come together,
striving to complete a shape as I pierce and pierce the blue rush.
Myra Schneider’s most recent books are Writing My Way Through Cancer (Jessica Kingsley 2003) and Multiplying The Moon (Enitharmon 2004). She is currently co-editing Images of Women, an anthology of poems partly funded by the Arts Council.
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