A pair of eagle statues at Skylands State Park in NJ inspires a reverie on the values and virtues of homeland success: what does it mean to hold onto what is yours? More thoughts and images on looking into 2012, here at blog.amynelsonhahn.info
Memorial: on success
Wing craft,
shoulder set against
what past and future enemies
may demand --
each feather burden furnished
to a purpose, burnished
to a light-hard task.
Nothing is easy
to the tested arc;
nothing curves simple
to the proven pilot.
All is the ghastly
potentiality
of the feasible loss,
the hateful failure.
Every superlative mark
enshrines a deeper curse:
the will to prevail.
Copyright (c) 2011 Amy Nelson Hahn
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