EAGLE
Reading edition
THE dwindling pole, Tall perpendicular in air, Attenuates to be a bird Poised on a sphere. No flag projects This tensile grace, this needle-word, Only, in rigid attitude, The ball, the bird. Metallic time Has caught an eagle, trapped the beat Of rushing wings, ensnared in bronze His taloned feet. Invader of The thunder, never will you fly Again to pluck the blazing heart. Shall I? Shall I?