Flying Inside Your Own Body
Flying Inside Your Own Body - meaning Summary
Flight Versus Waking Weight
The poem contrasts a dream of literal, buoyant flight—lungs as wings, a heart filled with helium, the earth transformed into a radiant jewel—with the crushing reality of waking life, where breath is clogged, the sun is a heavy weight, and the heart becomes a shaken fist. It presents a yearning for escape and the painful recognition that imagination can lift you only in sleep; waking, you remain unable to rise.
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