Wednesday, April 27, 2011

3058. NOT MY ETHER WINGS

NOT MY ETHER WINGS
You've brought me no satisfaction like the
lilting toil of struggle and work. Just outside
my face this morning, perceiving a hundred
new things, I perfectly picked out your visage
among the monk-flowers and new rose bushes.
The tall sky loomed, breaking off only where two
perpendicular jets made their smooth and
effective ascents; passing each other, it seemed,
so close but really miles apart; and all those
comfortable people, just sitting. But where
can you stare in the sky, and why?
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Therefore I list my things : a paucity of
rainbows and ice, an amassed predilection
for duty self-chosen, a nightmare trickle that
won't go away. I close my eyes and try dreaming
once more. It works. I am soon far away.

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