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Jaime Gabriel Gana
jaimegana15@gmail.com
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Heart of Glass
Poetry shortlisted and published in the 2022 Hammond House Anthologies
There is a patch of sky
that takes its place
comfortably
above my soft glass window
Billowed cloud
Immaculate cotton bloom
It leaves
And another takes its place
A blot delightful onto pale blue
Sea foams
From top
Not bottom
As they pass
My mind is at ease
Pressed against
Warm tinted glass
Yet the sky is out of reach
I hold out expectantly
and yield to emptiness
no air between
Wings I find on my back
from my yearning to fly
Become Icarus
with more troubled mind
I see not feel
as day turns to night
and night turns into day
yet again
Seasons change
I remain the same
Pining for air
beyond crystalline chrome confines
Now it is grey
the tempest storm brews like God’s fury
within, without it rages
yet in this comfort I at last yearn to break free
So in this holy hour I steady my strained pinions
as I take one final desperate look
and in shattered glass
I fall and take flight!