Verse – “The Kite Flew All Night”
If the wind is steady–
on these plains it often
is– and if the dacron
line has not been eaten
by those grey and tiny
field mice that slip into
my small storage shed, and
if the stake is driven
firmly in the ground, and
if the rip-stop nylon
like a parachute can
hold, and if the fiber-
glass rods bend but do not
break, the sky has color
added and our hearts can
also fly.
– Steve Shoemaker, Urbana, IL, October 20, 2013
Views from the Edge 
I love the tension throughout this poem, and I love the way Shoemaker releases that tension— as one might do with a kite on the wind— so lightly at the end.
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Courtenay, So GOOD to hear from you and to read your comment. For whatever reason I haven’t received anything from Bluebird Boulevard for ages. Are you okay?
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