Something Better Than Feathers: Lux Aeterna

March 17, 2020 Kate Belew with Lux Aeterna (New York)

Imagine us something better than feathers

more touchable than buzzard angels

and more wicked than this world. 

Something to reckon with, to bring reckoning. 

A different kind of ocean. 

A different kind of tide.

And us, this world, how do I hold it? 

Like hot handles in California hellfires?

Or a different kind of flame?

Like drip flooded Italian windowsong?

I will be optimistic. I will be note in song. 

I will be within and without, calling to you.

There is no other way.