"Touching Down"...

" Touching Down "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Touching down
drawing crowds
downtown
with photostatted
captions

sporadically
mapped out
in leather-bound albums
stored in scaffolded attics

not long after
substantive repair
as soot and lampblack
on stained glass
seen or imagined

marked and tracked
across sealed cavities
beneath ceilings
of cracking plaster

fearing phantoms
with folded hands
ascending marble ramps
for penitents
scooting in wheelchairs...