Corrosive doubt/glacial descent/to

Unrelieved despair.

Terminal moraine/broken/among

the broken rubble. Survival

is a matter/of innumerable miracles.

Improbable interventions/

at the 11^th hour.

We see the jaws open/time & time

again. And time & time again/

the winged one arrives/displaced air/

and the muffled clap/of beating wings

and away.