Bird of Air and Fire

Jena Woodhouse
How heaven might appear
between one world's end
and the dawn of another:
as if all the wings
that ever were
resurrect as light,
take flight and hover;
the archetypal
bird of fire,
phoenix of the soul's desire,
pierces the cusp of eternity,
dipping its head and burning eye
to the vision's rim,
the horizon line,
wings encompassing
points beyond time.