Today’s prompt worked! Check it out at NaPoWriMo ~ the marriage of a dictionary of classical terms and names, and a dictionary of science fiction. See what you think:
On the wings of a bluebird ~
Pliny says Dandon lived 500 years
one-half a millennia, seven
of my lifetimes. Each one born
into a timeline of difference
where what you knew before
no longer matters.
What did Dandon make
of lives that spiraled through
other worlds? Cities named
for new gods, rivers sleeping
in new beds…nothing stays
the same.
I have lived the seven lives
of a bird, perhaps a bluebird
my grandmother’s harbinger
of happiness. Each of my lives
first fledged, then spiralling in
flight. Like Dandon, with wings.
Tea and Breath 