Wing mirror
Loosely based on Kadie Salmon’s “Hunting Razorbills”
Wings—
set of beaks beaded into the sky
beaten air—
breath capsules
feathered in velocity, careening
lightspeed
Binocular vision
seeing the sky fold a corner
turning into another aspect of the sky
Wings
are a subset of angelic arms
crossed
across the chest
over the blue iris of the world
This eye with its tiny corneal scratch, etching
each instant of sight—
transcendent
Klara du Plessis is a poet, artist-scholar, and literary curator. Her debut poetry collection, Ekke, won the 2019 Pat Lowther Memorial Award and her critical writing received Arc Poetry Magazine’s 2022 Critic’s Desk Award. She is known for her contributions to long-form and translingual poetics, and writes in and between English and Afrikaans. Welcoming collaborative formations, her narrative poem, Hell Light Flesh, was adapted and produced as a mono-opera film with composer Jimmie LeBlanc, premiered at the International Festival of Films on Art in 2023. Klara develops an ongoing series of experimental and dialogic literary events called Deep Curation, an approach which posits the poetry reading as artform. Her fourth poetry collection Post-Mortem of the Event is forthcoming, Fall 2024.
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