UNTITLED

  by Bates Corlieu

By nineteen ninety-seven the children began to fly
by bending knees & jumping with all their ecstasy
to ceilings and chandeliers and bobbing up for apples at the tops of trees
then out windows and across valleys shrieking bubbles

Of course the women decided to get together and learn
in the basement of the church and many of them
were successful though I found it more difficult there
to hover much higher than the folding chairs