Vivian Wagner lives in New Concord, Ohio, where she's an associate professor of English at Muskingum University.She's the author of a memoir, Fiddle: One Woman, Four Strings, and 8,000 Miles of Music(Citadel-Kensington); a full-length poetry collection, Raising(Clare Songbirds Publishing House)and three poetry chapbooks: The Village (Aldrich Press-Kelsay Books),Making (Origami Poems Project), and Curiosities (Unsolicited Press).
THE INFINITY MYTH
It was a time of creation:
cameras and cars,
zeppelins and wires,
everything mechanized, limitless.
Quietly, though, a pigeon
named Martha powered
down, sitting in her cage,
sipping a last lilted breath,
taking with her the wild,
electric sound of wings.
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