pole-extending arms pull
each ligament bone
to muscle like ripples
like feathers ruffling
and with each dance
shows the sky is but
a stretch
2.
small flames whisper
aloft alive by each
equal blink each
rotation of shadow
and light blurring
in minded eyes to umbra
a sociality of light's
motion so much slower
than its travel
3.
feather crown masked
on a silicon-oxide
substrate, thin tin,
battery analogous
through the hazes of time
of drink, of crowd, of dark