chagall backdrop

Look up to the sky,
no – higher than that,

crane way back
carve an arc

till you’re horizontal
broken at the waist

a radical limbo

now drop all the tons
of heaven square

on your chest

to lay you to
the ground

flat and pressed
like a penny

dispensed
from a carnival

machine stamped

in god we’d trust
if only we could find her

© Carlos Chagall, 2013