Light lifted me briefly
to the bands of color
my eyes could not discern.
A flock of birds
gently flew around
the impediment I made
in the sky.
Whenever fear
attempted to sink me
I revisited loving you.
As clouds arrived
their light set me down
on a patch of earth
thick with tracks.
This levitation lasted
long enough
for the earth
to rotate me
seventeen point two-nine miles
from my starting place.
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