It can be any one of us. How to
pass over limits, rise above
needles in the hand
finding a port in a vein?
How to get over
the prepping with marker pens,
not writing but being written on?
How to go beyond
one arm dangling,
the bird-flight pectoral
too weak to bring forward?
The heart feathering
through my breast,
for now, anyway,
I lift a
trailing
wing
and
fly