[New-Poetry] All aboard!

[Anny Ballardini]

A very good poem.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Halvard Johnson 
  To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &Views 
  Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 5:09 PM
  Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] All aboard!


  Wavelength

  With opacity drifting across their sunset, Mitsui and Jim spill colors
  across the floors of their loft. A column of flame shoots upward

  every half hour. Beyond the serrated glass, the knife-edged sky casts
  brilliant squares of light on polished hardwood floors. Now silvery gray,

  a tall, thin window comes into view, turning at right angles to the total
  blackness above. Suddenly it is no longer dark. A speeding freight train

  roars out of the fireplace, and passersby barely notice. What you see
  is what you get, essentially. The center of the universe, we’ve found,

  can be anywhere we want it to be. Gradually, as the day wore on, the light
  became more and more pronounced, subtly altering the contents of our

  space. Faith, hope, and envy flashed above the doorways and people die
  of exposure all around. Consummate rockers, masters of the violin,

  bypassed by the art world, just get off the train altogether. The train becomes
  a very small thing down the track, impossible to catch.


  fr. Halvard Johnson, Organ Harvest with Entrance of Clones 
  [Hamilton Stone Editions, 2007] 







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