Florentine Falcon a screen print on etching paper by femmefatale_quinn (you can find her on Instagram)
In the Air of my Mind
between waking and sleeping
a world waits to be seen
a cave of light
a place between sea and land
a flash of red wings beat the air
feathered armor covers all of him
in his talons a cobra pulses truth
in my delirium of night
I fly with them looking
at the green iridescent
tunnel opening, closing
it comes close, retreats
I’ve never been able to enter
or exit its green invitation
red wings spread open
their layered feathers
like cobra I’m clutched in strong talons
I’m trapped in a journey of green
beating wings raise us
the tunnel is all green light
now expanding now contracting
we fly out through the iridescence
into sharp reality
Janice Eskridge ©️January 2020
Winding Stream Press 