Yes, what a land/word/scape viewed from above, Peter. I really like
both, as moves toward what horizon...
Doug
On 8-Nov-08, at 3:09 PM, Peter Ciccariello wrote:
> At least this moment, for at least this
> moment<http://ciccariello.viewbook.com/this_moment>
> ** * * *We had a predilection for flying*
>
> At least this moment, for at least this moment
> We had a predilection for flying,
> Sitting far back in seats 146b or 175c
> Next to the window, the back of the plane
> And if sometimes, passing over the marble steps of the palace
> or the hidden interior of our own secrecy or sometimes after barely
> clipping
> our abyss
> Of reluctant assimilation to reveal the mournful solitude of our
> dreaming
> We would wake again drunk with the wind and everything that was
> flying with
> us
> Over this dense black mirror of ocean everything that was supposed
> to be
> guarding us and
> Our practiced stumbling our flight out of the tunnel our reeling into
> The blinding light that we surged past now as if we were unaware again
> As if we had just thrown ourselves up into the air and reached our
> hands out
> to fly
>
Douglas Barbour
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