how to see it all
from a small window
moving so fast
beyond
the stretch
of paling pasteled water
flattening outspread below
Michigan falls back
Superior enters the frame
horizon a thick line
peach paling up through yellow
green then the upward reach
of pure lit blue
somewhere ahead a deepening sun
casts a bronze hue on these colours
& the increasingly dark
spaces below
friends family behind me
home in the darkness before
how easy it seems
speeding across this country
37000 feet below
later cloudtown
shudders & crowds
against a darker background
deep mauve town
houses loop & lean
down the shifting streets
that mimic
language on loan
to sky above
below
written aboard flight 655 Toronto-Edmonton
20:00 - 22:00 Wednesday July 6 2005
Douglas Barbour
11655 - 72 Avenue NW
Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
(780) 436 3320
-- bring lust into the library
or it is hell.
Lisa Robertson
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