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The layers of air

Mary Belardi Erickson
Poetry
Fantasy

The layers of air

you can part and enter are the same molecules
you breathe.
Nerve-endings are like doorknobs
which turn with barely a click—
guiding thoughts above solid ground.
Trust gravity keeps you here, for now.

If you choose the sky and slip between folds,
discover connecting suites
doors opening into spinning, spacious rooms.
Atoms spark as if you pulled light’s string
for those inevitable darkened corners.

You may not trust these apertures
to this elsewhere already here.  You ask,
Did The Rabbit really do well to guide Alice
into Wonderland?

Yes, it can begin like child’s play, this leaping
into sky-holes, as a space-suited rabbit beckons.
He quips, “Mind the airy depths as you reason vapor.”  

It can set you at ease exploring breezeways,
the travel, oxygen filling your lungs,
rising into voice from words picked in language clouds
while you blue-step...



                                                                                


 

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Copyright 2009, Mary Belardi Erickson. All rights reserved.

Mary Belardi Erickson lives with her husband,Jon,in the countryside of west central Minnesota. She has a B.A. from Augsburg College and a M.A.from Drake University. She enjoys writing a variety of poetry. Her work has been published both in print and online, most recently or forthcoming in The Aurorean, Avocet, Flutter, Numinous, Oak Bend Review, Bolts of Silk, Perspectives, now Mindflights, and others.      

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