Angels who love danger
park in stalled airplanes
wearing treble hooks in their ears.
Their lures are sharp.
They borrow light from stars
dazzling women
swimming out of their element
looking for the entrance to heaven.
This poem “Setting the Hook” originally appeared in Literature & the Visual Arts. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 113-114 (Summer/Autumn 1987): 75-75.
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