Icarian Carillon - TOC

I am Icarus, carving the sky.

I fall singing as the ocarina;

deformed, yet caressing the wind

that knows my careless fate

A fate at once careening

out of control,

yet held fast by the jeweled

carcan of bondage.

From the escarpment

springs all hope,

as the carcajou must

before the carbine’s fury

Hard and dark as a carbonado,

the night shows me its cardinal points;

as though even the blackness

would had done with me

I remain a caret,

even to the dwindling light

where once I danced,

carousing until morning.

Is it true then?

Am I caricature of human kind?

A carpetbagger in my own life?

I am Icaraus, and as much a fool.

Icarus: character in Greek mythology: in Greek mythology, the son of Daedalus, who drowned in the sea while attempting to escape from Crete after the sun melted his wings of wax and feathers

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Ocarina: small simple wind instrument, shaped like a sweet potato , with finger holes and a mouthpiece, low hollow tones. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4^th Ed.

Carcan: West Africa iron collar: an iron collar for chaining an animal to a post, used in the past to restrain enslaved persons

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Carbine: short rifle: a lightweight rifle with a short barrel

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Carbonado: diamond used industrially: a dark diamond or cluster of diamonds. Use: drilling, polishing.

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Cardinal points: any of the four principal points of the compass, North, South, East, or West

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Caret: mark to show missing text: a mark made on printed or manuscript material to show where something such as a letter or word should be inserted

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