of contrails
a cage
a travel
a route
a grid
a scoring
a network
a skein
a line-up
a reticulation
a geometry
a diagram
a twining
a fly-over
an imposition
a mesh
a trellis
a convolution
until
a blurring
a loosening
a dissolving
a sprawl
a slump
a lounging
a listing
a doodle
a scribble
a scratch
a hatching
an erasure
a last gasp
b r e a t h
Landfall
unpeopled line rising/falling/slipping
salt lurching white-foam vanishing
up/down in/out
of focus perspective
place names dragging their anchors
landmarks stripped of name and label
travel being homeless voiceless
bird-driven tide-hauled
trusting and thrust hoping and helpless
only the creak of the boat for a prayer
The brick wall
I
I told
I told you
I told you not
I told you not to
I told you not to do
I told you not to do that
I told you not to do that again
and again
and again
and again |
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