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Houdini Suspended

Rochelle Lynn Holt

What they don’t understand is we escape:
free verse or rhyme, rhythm, symbols, tone.
Mind is Houdini suspended

underwater or above in cone
as body is liberated
from aches and pains that cloak us like black cape.

It’s almost as though we are dead,
afloat like a sail or gossamer drape,
adrift on sea without heavy bones.

No one or nothing can bruise us or scrape
invisible, orange butterfly,
transformed from child in adult full-grown.

Dreaming in sun on a green bed,
thoughts transport faster than light or sound
as we become cloud, stone, wave and gold leaf.

In darkness, we are the light shone
on the shadows who release form and shape.
We follow only where we’ve led.

What they don’t understand is we escape:
free verse or rhyme, rhythm, symbols, tone.
Mine is Houdini suspended.

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