Suzanne Herschell
Pass The Parcel
From Genesis to Revelation

the
dizzy
wonder of
each layer unwrapped
to reveal more but you recall
the dichotomy of deceptively less before
a chimera passed to others
never had so much
given so
little

yet

in the
beginning
there was mystery
belief flight of mythology
a tease & thrall disguised by sculpted words concealing
a casual dissonant lurch
pendulum's extremes
pole to pole

coming
out
swinging

or between
shedding piecemeal all
those carelessly enticing lines
like peeling strips of skin after sunburn beguiled by
warmth of summer ways before the
raw epiphany
flesh exposed
flawed
&

so
plummets
Icarus

while
Apollo
still remains a myth