Gossip: Another Way to Sky

Another Way to Sky, oil on canvas, 36''x36'', Rachel Kellum

If you live free, know this:
your life is the jailor’s grist
served in hot whispers
to prisoners she keeps and is.

When she offers you
a plate, don’t eat.
Despite her smile,
it is full of spit.

Fly on the outside,
on the cloud’s upside.
Grin. Write it:
I’ve nothing to hide.

2011