henry 7. reneau, jr.
wing-borne flute aloft
flute/ carved from the wing bone of
a red-crowned crane/
nothing is isolated /; everything is a/
part &/
participates in /a greater
whole /(the sum of) inheriting wing &
/ swirling through swaths
of cumulous gong/ enabled flight & up/
lift of musical notes/ that suffuse the air
& /vibrate
/not /the destination /but the journey
/ is not dead / but is no longer
what it was/ is spirited /: this beautiful kind
of spiraling elevation /up
/ward & /onward
/ the mile marker signs/ pointing the way to
the last chance for gas/food/beer in 1 . . ./
2/. . . 3/. . . 4/. . . 5/ . . . more miles
/transcendence/
like
/ immigration/ where we must always have
an escape plan
/is when we categorize survival /
as having a direction/ such as
towards/ or
away from /as good as any religion
finding a place /within a constellation of believers/
each uplifting
the other /
towards a higher power /which they might
call God /
or might simply / call each other
/nothing is a/part /; everything is/ a part of /
& participation in/ the sum of
a greater whole
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henry 7. reneau, jr. writes words of conflagration to awaken the world ablaze, an inferno of free verse illuminated by his affinity for disobedience, like a discharged bullet that commits a felony every day, a spontaneous combustion that blazes from his heart, phoenix-fluxed red & gold, exploding through change is gonna come to implement the fire next time. He is the author of the poetry collection, freedomland blues (Transcendent Zero Press) and the e-chapbook, physiography of the fittest (Kind of a Hurricane Press), now available from their respective publishers. Additionally, he has self-published a chapbook entitled 13hirteen Levels of Resistance, and his collection, The Book Of Blue(s): Tryin' To Make A Dollar Outta' Fifteen Cents, was a finalist for the 2018 Digging Press Chapbook Series. His work has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.