Solo and ropeless
Edlinger climbs out
underneath an overhang,
hangs effortlessly off one arm
several hundred feet
off the ground while
dipping the other
into a bag of chalk,
utterly indifferent
to the danger,
before swinging his foot
into a crack above his head
and pulling himself up.
From an obituary of Patrick Edlinger. By Angi Holden.
Verbatim Poetry 