Nadia Giordana
His First Time: flight by ropes
(for Corbin Vaughn)
By Tyler V. Hayes
it’s fleeting
the rebuff
of a flutter
fleecing
the sway
in his wee
depleted eyes
exhausted
the college
girls of August
ferry a whole
life on the neck
heaving TVs
sleeping late
they flit
from mom
then return
we can’t split
a pendulum
a heavy head
tightened white
like a fading grip
on the tethers
just out of reach
give it up already.
