Only Flying - by Brook Bhagat (Paperback)

About the Book

Only Flying is a collection of poetry that celebrates transformation and paradox.

Book Synopsis

Only Flying is about mammoths, triumph and riding; cancer, dancing, and disappearing; falling and remembering where you were born and what you were looking for; the red stone of the beloved and how it burned through the Earth to find her; climbing out the window; stealing magic pants and maybe getting away with it; secret floating meadows and dreaming horses held by thin strings; Hail Kuan, full of face, and how she did get away; the left eye; us as pieces finding the phonograph of loneliness at the bottom of the sea; things found digging; the woman in the horse's eye; the mother of the world as a kangaroo; the softness of surrender; the shadow goddess and her peahen on a fire escape; a very big egg; remembering seven notes and how it killed her; the wounds of the woman I was not following at the grocery store; rebellion at the waterfall you did not choose; cockroaches dressed to the nines; how the goblin king pulled a fast one; the mannequin in the wild; bluegrass buffalo snorting in the dawn; climbing, dying, breaking free and coming back; mothering on Mars; a bonsai blueberry bush; a black widow spider praying the rosary; a vision of the master; crossing over; a chipping sparrow and having to let her go; travels on the magnetosphere; a map, a mandala, and letting them go too; the mother of the world as a cardboard glitter crescent moon; justice; how to build houses on railroad tracks; how not to get your hopes up about poetry; how to remember the thread in a jungle filled with tigers; how to wake up; the lovers as apricot trees; how the river got free; and, of course, flying.