Flying High
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Some women live to fly Some metaphysical alibi Hanging out with angels Testing all the right angles of ascent As the sky turns to smoke Over Bosnia, Mozambique Tiananmen Square Outside the mystique Some women need to fly In their all night dreams Around the aurora borealis Somalia and Chechnya From Beirut to Dallas When the blue begins to unravel It feels like Out-of-body travel I'm flying high I'm flying high I'm flying higher Light years away Midnight-blue day Some women live to fly Outside the subplot Of the jet-set and Superman Beyond the Golden Fleece And flight motif Above the Great Barrier Reef And St. Elmo's Fire Into the heart of desire Some women love to fly
Yusef Komunyakaa, the subject of this issue of Callaloo, teaches at Princeton University. His most recent book of poems is Taboo: The Wishbone Trilogy, Part I. The numerous prizes, awards and honors he has received for his poetry include a chancellorship with the American Academy of Poets, the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters (Wesleyan University), the William Faulkner Prize (Universite Rennes, France), the Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry, and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
