Mercedes Lawry

Save the Day
A Fantasy

Out of the ruinous sky, I pulled down
wisdom, sucked sleet
and fog-gauze, layered the blues
across my shoulders like a regal cape,
wore the wind down to a slim arrow
easy to slip between my ribs, took
a thundercloud and put it on my belly
where it rumbled and thrummed. 

I became like the eagle and the panther
and the red wolf, caparisoned for battle.
Come evening
I began with the stars - one, two, three
swallowed and on until the smudge of morning
light when I was lit up, my own sun now,
anchored and impervious to con-men and liars,
ready to demolish cages and corporate whores.