flew off the tree
a human form with wings
and
we cry out
and run away
and I think
I might
by the surprise and instinct that we keep
for
insects and for serpents
this was in England
where she has
finds
as a supernal Hundred Acre Wood
as
well as Neverland
so
named by Scotland’s Barrie
but Germany
or
Holland or
Russia of Baba Yaga
or Asia with the dragons there
and
doesn’t require a Saint
George
but all the stories
we might gather while we searching
or
when
we’re surprised
lands of
Anansi
or
the Raven for a character
both
natural and extreme
because we want so far
is how to take
the world
we want the magic
with
extreme imagination
to
be real
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actual sighting
photo by Jessy Paston on Unsplash
(x = space)
x
x
Tricks
x
Silly rabbit
Bear of little brain
Ferdinand
Under the cork tree
Where
There are
Redolent flowers
Where Ferdinand
Redoles
x
Dog flying plane
On doghouse
Cat invested
In lasagna
The animals know
We craft
Their knowing
Franciscan-relegated
Wisdom
Preaching to birds
Who listen
x
The cardinals who
Live red
The ravens who laugh
Black
x
To all the lower
Creatures
Who act better
x
One virtue
Per species,
Each an exemplar
x
While we have
Way too many
Too complex a menagerie
Made
Of excuses
x
The stolid thing
We offer
Maybe we imagine
x
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x
x
Photo by Marco Biondi on Unsplash
x
(x = space)
x
x
When Worlds No Longer Can Collide
x
This is not
What I want
I want the innocence
Without the naivete
x
I want
To like the colors
All of them
The rainbow
And the color wheel
x
I want
To enjoy
The softness of felt
From the playful
Learning boards
Of childhood
x
I want
To be both
Simple and profound
To have some shapes
Some textures
That have meaning
Day to day
x
That all of this
Is my philosophy
And if I wear a tie
Or shiny shoes,
No one should care
x
But me
And you
With whom I share
The pleasure in the day
In the life
And we have met
Should we meet
Choosing to sip coffee
At a café by the lake
In Switzerland
I have made up
x
(made up the café
and your company
not Switzerland that
has been around
for a while
and I’ve never been there)
x
I’d like anyone
To get this
For pursuits,
Philosophy
Share in it
In these
Make your own
To have
To offer
Where you imagine
We might meet next
x
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x
x
When Worlds Collide is a novel by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie. There is a sequel titled After Worlds Collide. They are science fiction, and I recommend them.
x
Photo by Danny Lines on Unsplash
x
(x = space)
x
x
A Quiet Place
(a sequel)
x
A song
A horror movie
A hyped-up culture
Maybe doesn’t want one
But I do
x
Something calm
With windows large enough
To witness nature
As it passes
With sun or wind
Or snow or rain,
Things better watched
And heard
From inside
With ceilings high enough
So I could imagine a cathedral
Rather than
A cave
(it’s all right—I am imaginative)
A place to live with my own noise
That is modified respectfully
With regard to
Neighbors whom
I might get to know
x
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x
x
New Forest Lane
Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash
New Forest National Park, United Kingdom
[cathedral]
x
Exhale
Out goes the bad air
In goes the good
That was from a cartoon, I think
Someone pushing water out
And hoping oxygen got in
In an animated way
And in an animated way
That’s all I remember
Maybe a vague image in black and white
But everything was black and white
We didn’t have a color set
As for a time, no one did
In what was technology but
Shooting rockets into space
Removing oxygen in liquid style
One-way breathing
For a planet
Awaiting returns for investment
Time and space, material and energy
Before we got the set
And got Apollo
Earthy breath
That is imagination
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Photo by Bill Jelen on Unsplash
The June 29, 2018 launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station was scheduled for 5:42:42 AM in order to rendezvous with the International Space Station. Every rocket has a plume of exhaust, but only the rockets launching just before sunrise will show up like this one.
A Prequel to Aeneid
I imagine I’m
On the porch of
An ancient Greek house
There are pillars all around
It’s a warm, airless day
And me, I’m doing this
I’m writing
Maybe I’m leaving something for
Posterity, because
By government or commerce
Speechifying’s more important
It could be a will
A source for disagreement
When I’m gone
Or mischief in an epic
Something afterward to leave around
Somewhere
For the future, maybe for a conqueror
In which I take the loser’s side
And change the tone of
Everything
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Photo by Aubrey Rose Odom on Unsplash
Men into Space
(someone else’s nostalgia)
William Lundigan beat them all
Because he got to space in the fifties
I didn’t see this show while
Growing up
Or Johnny Sokko with his giant robot in the
Half hour before
Other shows I missed as well
Supercar, for instance
I guess this was the fifties-sixties way
To get us there
Enjoy the ride
And encounter who knows what
Only the television writers knew
Thankful for retrograde, I guess
Retroactive, retrospective
The tier of channels that carry
Our imagination
From the past
Into the present
Maybe to conferences
And comic books
And all sorts of new brains
New days
That started here
In my older siblilngs’ days
Brought forward
Into better resolution
Now let’s have, please
Women into Space
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image, NASA
STS Discovery Mission 131, International Space Station
Astronauts (clockwise from top right) Naoko Yamazaki, Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Stephanie Wilson, and Tracy Caldwell
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