Icarus

Karen Brenchley
1 min readNov 20, 2019

Damn Icarus and his melted wings.
Poor depth perception
and willful heart
echo through the ages,
but what I hear
what I’m told
says never try,
as my own wings strain
and my fingertips burn
reaching.

Photo by Marc-Olivier Jodoin on Unsplash

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Karen Brenchley

Product manager for machine learning and data science, aikido nidan, published fiction writer, MS survivor