The poetic city: A suite for Miss Helen, “Tandem Jump 7/28/12”

The poet, Reece Burka, and Miss Helen getting ready to take that jump. (Photo by: Richard Eager)

Tandem Jump 7/28/12

Helen teaches me the virtue of angel wings

And takes me on my virgin flight.

The dissolution of cells that robs her memory

Strips bare the distractions of self

While the innocence of pure being propels her…

And with her I am carried in a tandem jump.

Upward,

Upward,

Upward …

We soar with the muse

Into a universe of accelerated expansion

That presages the defeat of entropy

By the triumph of the Spirit.

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© Reece Burka 2/1/2019