Winged Triptych
- Winged Triptych
1. Father’s Wings
They said cardiac arrest, yet the eyes were abducted first, taken hostage to an outlet where chenille wingshang discount.A moist gold god murmursJust believe in Jesus I quip Final Sale No Return
2. Son’s Wings
The terrorist smirked slipped down clandestine corridors painting graffiti of Man’s square breasts.Outside, he gasped paused His father hung under a cumulus of silent, salvational breath
At the services, he imagines his own wings:black leather, bedazzled, cropped short. [End Page 262]
3. Holy Ghost’s Wings
Batman, the Boy Wonder is a cavefilled with sun-kissed guiltand a cacophony of gospel Really malaisedeformed anatomy under spandexpressed deeply downdisturbingly dangled
He mispronounces a nearly dead language flagellates his own masquerade the porthole a plunging peekaboo slit
While lip-locked superheroes sweat While the Bat car revsWhile Deuteronomy looms in the Gotham skies [End Page 263]
Mark McBeth is associate professor at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. His book, Teacher Training at Cambridge: The Initiatives of Oscar Browning and Elizabeth Hughes (coauthored with Pam Hirsch), explores the history of education in nineteenth-century England. His work has also appeared in various journals and book collections.
