Angel poem :poem for the departed for Phillip Simpenfeider

Angel poem :poem for the departed
For Phillip Simpenfeider

A caliph
and a seraph told their stories.
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a swallow flits by
as a bat,
in the day
and asks for no more
but
to be
free
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it glistens, it pulsates
it welcomes like light

it allows a free move
it dwells in no past

it rears up
like a lizard
from the age-old
earth

its tongue flicking
joy

and all directions,
bow,
down.