Carolina Ebeid

Like the First Untethered Flight of the Hot-Air Balloon

1. Yellow’s the fitting color for sickness
2. & the odorless median-flowers
3. haphazardly edging the highway.
4. Something jaundices the air, you could say.
5. A man falls out of his office tower.
6. Death is not always a German expert
7. or master, or a German auto-
8. mobile wreck. I never can say what I mean.
9. Death comes as a drover. Over & down from
10. bridge-rail to bay, cliff to clay as in
11. the place in Alberta called Head-Smashed-In
12. Buffalo Jump, those plummeting cartwheels
13. of bison, of men in their beautiful shirts.