Sad, strong, picture. A
2009/8/12 Jim Bennett <[log in to unmask]>
> News snap
>
> Spiralling towards the earth
> One wing torn off the other unable
> To keep it aloft
> doing half a job
> making it half fly
> and turn in on itself
> its corkscrew grace
> wringing out every bit of strength it had
> until it had no more air or strength
> to defy the ground
>
> it is inevitable I supose
> the loss of life calculable
> names on a loading manifest
> translate into dna traces
> near empty coffins returned to families
> with body parts and occasional possessions
> pulled from the sky
>
> someone found birds' feathers
> sucked into its dead engine
> small bones crushed and burned
> but enough to bring the plane
> back down to earth
>
> around the crash site
> birds flock
> and pick over the debris
>
--
Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
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