Gregory Gunn’s most recent poem to appear here was Summer Redundancy With Added Pleonasm (July 2013).

Ethereal Morning Awakening
By Gregory Gunn

Today the flock of clouds
have somehow sheared me
fleecily off from
the assembly of sheep
in the city below. Feathered
am I at 29 thousand feet,
like an imagined deity
far above Homo erectus,
but better than Homo sapiens,
far below seraphim,
simply traversing above cotton
cumuli encaged in metal
and man-made fibers, lacking
sufficient moral fiber, an Eden
exile risen above it all, Earth,
forbidden fruit and metaphoric
serpent coaching.