News: a signature of flight <br />stays imprinted on blue-black strata <br />in Earth’s uncertain crust. <br />(Body long since gone.) <br />The British, desperate like <br />everyone for fuel, mining in <br />the vicinity of Hell, uncovered <br />icon of wing which dates <br />from when flight went <br />unnamed in air. We glance <br />at accounts concerning <br />“the fossilized wing of <br />Earth’s first flying thing.” <br />Shall we congratulate <br />this synecdoche of dragonfly <br />set deep in Derbyshire coal? <br />In its disappearing act, <br />it left behind a single-image <br />autobiography. It induced the very <br />rocks to recall that once it <br />possessed the golden air.<br /><br />Hans Ostrom<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fossil-of-a-wing/
