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The book The House of the World has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and is now available on Amazon.

Author: Mary Waterfield

Without Wings

How messages
get to hands and feet
I’m not sure.
To think you want to walk
is very different
from walking.
It happens,
and perhaps
it’s best not to ask.

It is easy
to fly without wings
by telling joy
to lift you
where you want to go,
it being
no less real
for being invisible.