COGNITIO
EXPERIMENTALIS
(Kinglet Song)
The Wren winces before the rift(Kinglet Song)
Whistles at the rupture, whispers
Through a whistling rent in the veil
Stitched o'er a hole in the fullness
The Eagle's wings are patched sails that
Harness gales—star navigation
By the scruff of a horse's mane—
Andromeda eclipsed
Andromeda smothered
in a wingspan
backlit by it
in a wingspan
backlit by it
Eagle, wind-hare, grows teary-eyed
As his great height tells more than asked
Of his pact with earth—paving stones
Choke the brown promenades below
Open-air claustrophobia
In the crusade against lightness—
The threadbare veil tears, the sun dims
Eagle's small stowaway
embraces the lightness
the Eagle flees
as he rises
the Eagle flees
as he rises
Wren, rightful heir of weight, rather
Scrambles contra—the hitchhiker
Bounds songs note by note, amassing
Fractions soon to fill the fullness
Wing'd tortoise, songbird of the veil
Sees Cassiopeia lying
As Corona Borealis
Hangs from a sagging bough
above the weighted strain
lightly ascends
he who will reign
lightly ascends
he who will reign
James Bradley