Friday, September 18, 2009

Zachary Schomburg - Falling Life

From Scary, No Scary
Zachary Schomburg


Falling Life


You are in a very high tree.

If you jump
you will live a full life
while falling.

You will get married
to a hummingbird

and raise beautiful part-
hummingbirds.

You will die of cancer
in mid-air.

I will not lie.
It will be painful.

You are a brave little boy
or girl.

2 Comments:

At 9/18/2009 12:49 PM, Blogger Elisa said...

Originally appeared in Absent. :)

 
At 9/18/2009 1:36 PM, Blogger John Gallaher said...

Hah! It's such a fine poem.

 

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