Aloft: Poems from the Heights

The poet as an Anti-Anteaus, taking strength from the atmosphere. Upwards into air, urges toward the ether-there—the ascent and its rains of acme. Risings, scalings. Aerialism. Zenith-bound. Aspirations, Icarian longings, elevations, the head craned back to eye each eyrie—heavenly empyreans. Stone on stone erecting the Tower of what apex. Poetry's affinity for the heights from Parnassus to the present o'ertops us still.