The Dubose and Dorothy Heyward Society Prize
Ethan Fugate
Flight 17
(from Nouveaux Contes de Fées)
the air so still at sunset musical staves written cells alive with energy
condensation trails of jets in pink chalk hover pooling over apologies
linger parallel to one another The Moon a half note rises and smoke and blood
engine noises push through exploding inward the dreaming bee welcomes
disappear into flesh exploding always every moon to the hive
open up the other side exploding hopeful the air so still
decay of now decoy said with wages of blood peaceful jets ripping sky and
marble posturing expertise in swarms singing flesh human pilots desperate
a field plowed under definite concrete shrapnel for anything but flight
what our government needs what I just said is violent to fully expect to fall
what matters to consumers to people past violent to bee into a field from on high what
is perceived is broken absent flowers violent wreckage amongst flowers