The story of Icarus:

https://ovid.lib.virginia.edu/trans/Metamorph8.htm

Read Waiting for Icarus

Waiting for Icarus Muriel Rukeyser
He said he would be back and we’d drink wine together He said that everything would be better than before
He said we were on the edge of a new relation
He said he would never again cringe before his father He said that he was going to invent full-time
He said he loved me that going into me
He said was going into the world and the sky He said all the buckles were very firm
He said the wax was the best wax
He said Wait for me here on the beach
He said Just don’t cry

I remember the gulls and the waves
I remember the islands going dark on the sea
I remember the girls laughing
I remember they said he only wanted to get away from me
I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets,
a trashy lot
I remember she told me those who try out inventions are worse I remember she added : Women who love such are the
Worst of all
I have been waiting all day, or perhaps longer.
I would have liked to try those wings myself.
It would have been better than this.

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus William Carlos Williams According to Brueghel when Icarus fell it was spring a farmer was ploughing his field the whole pageantry of the year was awake tingling with itself sweating in the sun that melted the wings’ wax unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning