'Icarus at Kurraba Point' by Judith Bishop

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To touch death in this manner: if our fingertips could pierce
that airless element, the body
breathing calm within its envelope of gas …

Morning took me to the jetty.
I saw the moon jellyfish pulse toward the air:
as their edges broke that barrier, the briefest spark appeared.

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And I said, moon, moon, thinking, something
must be said at such a moment,
words being carrion-flies on living heat.

I may be a carrion-fly, drinking
from the crevices between the earth and sky
sweet dew of niemands rose,

but no man’s butterfly.