Craig Smith

Il faut être léger comme l’oiseau, et non comme la plume

(One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather)

• Paul Valéry

A girl not long having been instructed

in the ways of making her own toast

runs with strong legged gusto up some

corridor of rockets angled in descent

and tightly formed to render a staircase

of sorts upon which she leaps across

red nose fuselages by tail fin trajectory

all the way towards greater lightness

like we have had described in the past

as the domain of soap bubbles dew

nestled spider web atom honeyeaters

memory cloud based data protocols

and what might also ingratiate tender

salutation within her one and a half

thousand days of birth as recognising

the role here of history and its dead

gravity that she could care less about.