Follow-Up Question for the Bombardier
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Is this your dream, boy?
You, in your mother’s butterfly garden, Spread-eagle in footed pajamas, War-plane pattern repeating.
Are these your toys fallen in cedar mulch? One of them has lost its head. Is it you, boy?
Belly-sprawled, Openly in awe of a hummingbird; Savored, this love of hovering.
Is this your dream? Did you always know you would fly? [End Page 365]
Andrea Walls, a Philadelphia native, is the author of Ultraviolet Catastrophe, a chapbook from the grassroots, Thread Makes Blanket Press. She is a VONA and Hedgebrook alum and has been published in H.O.W. Journal, Kweli Journal, and was first runner-up in Solstice Literary Magazine’s First Annual Contest. She has recently finished her first full collection of poetry, The Black Body Curve. She currently lives and writes in Camden, New Jersey.
