Learning to Miss
Created | Updated Apr 28, 2019
Learning to Miss
By Catherine B Krause
Editor's Note: Catherine B Krause has put her poetry on the Internet Archive with the express statement that it is 'to make sure the public domain status of Catherine's work is clear…..' We like her already.
We like her even more when we read that the collection is called Learning to Miss. This poem in particular should be dear to the hearts of h2g2ers. If you like it, please leave a post: we'll go over to Internet Archive and leave her a message with your comments.
On Throwing Oneself at the Ground and Missing
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Originally published in Argot Magazine on July 13, 2018.
| Everyone forgets that Icarus knew damn well his wings were made of wax and the sun was hot and eventually if he flew too high he would fall but this time, he thought, this time I really need to make it to Sicily but I think I’ll fly a bit higher anyway because I like the way the sun feels and how it tans my skin and energizes me and makes things so much better for that brief moment but right this moment I think it’s important I bask from closer than I’ve ever basked before and I know one of these days it’s going to melt my wings but that’s a long way away and I need this now and if I don’t get it then life will be unbearable and insufferable, I deserve it because I’ve done so much good in my life and going closer to the sun is what good people deserve, and oh shit, oh shit, oh shit |
