Man Carried Away by Eagle

for Tom O'Malley, NYPD

"A lamb, a baby, possibly.
No way a fullgrown man could be
The target for a takeaway.
So Zeus took Ganymede? A gay
Boy! Try that with a cop."
So some say to stop
Their panic at the swoop
And rapture of God's stoop
From icy space. But what
If it blew from inside, hot
As an exploded heart? There
Is a space once where
A woman saw an eagle
Nest a egg of spirit, the best
That we might be, said so.
A man heard. Her words
Rustled, set a huge bird's
Pinions fibrillating in his
Chest, raised him. Risen,
He was Eagle, beaklipped
And feathered to his fingertips.
This miracle made others rise
To flock the wild interior skies
With cries of glory, anguish, bliss.

We were there, saw, say this.