Poised at the BASE jump exit point <br />(Building, Antenna, Span or Earth) <br />he's scanned by thermal-riding birds <br />unruffled, nonchalantly buoyed <br /> <br />with quizzical eyes: Void? What void? <br />and in his mind he's well-rehearsed <br />poised at the BASE jump exit point. <br />Building, antenna, span or earth; <br /> <br />he's outgrown all his boyhood toys <br />scattered like down around his berth. <br />A breeze unties his mooring nerves, <br />his head's athump with bloody noise <br />poised at the BASE jump exit point.<br /><br />Diane Hine<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/base-jumper-a-rondel/
