Drafting—Lee Kiblinger

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by Lee Kiblinger

Drafting

We may find our selves
in the slipstream 

                lifted in the wake 
                of the fold’s faith

and pain—
when it’s not our race

                but we share
                its shadow-drag
 
and cling to wings
shred in gales

              lean in the lane’s
              downstream 

glide the tide 
of dove-breaths 

              that whisk the body
              in a long tack 

through grief’s strain
and stained glass—

             til belief buoys upon 
             willowed whispers

and we are weightless before
the fogged shore. 

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Lee Kiblinger is a teacher and late-blooming poet from Tyler, Texas, where she spends her time devouring novels, grading essays, laughing with three teenagers, and enjoying poems with Rabbit Room poets. Her work can be found in Heart of Flesh, Solum Journal, Ekstasis, The Way Back to Ourselves, Clayjar Review and others. You can read more of her poetry at www.ripplesoflaughter.com.

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