Sunday, October 5, 2008

Mean Free Path

Field liners awoke early
to mark, to set the field
lines, waking birds, unstartled
by white paint, went unabashedly
looking for breakfast.

Here it is: This road again.
Or is it? Wrote the total
down from each rising star,
rode the solar wind, blurred time
until the masses ceased to be.

Peering downward, stand-on toes
and you, somewhere. Are you
down there? Are you anywhere?
All I seem to see is laden Abraham
with steel, all I know is fear.

Now undone and tied with fishing-line
knots, fantasy-entwined and soul-wishing
for some sanity's semblance, at least.
Please forgive all of this affection, if
I express remorse at all, it should be yours.

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