[New-Poetry] Two poems from the Writer's Almanac

[Anny Ballardini]

 Night Flight

by George Bilgere<http://www.elabs7.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=fj6,da6r,dv,jpmh,79qz,3hrs,fxvj>

*Night Flight*

I am doing laps at night, alone
In the indoor pool. Outside
It is snowing, but I am warm
And weightless, suspended and out
Of time like a fly in amber.

She is thousands of miles
>From here, and miles above me,
Ghosting the stratosphere,
Heading from New York to London.
Though it is late, even
At that height, I know her light
Is on, her window a square
Of gold as she reads mysteries
Above the Atlantic. I watch

The line of black tile on the pool's
Floor, leading me down the lane.
If she looks down by moonlight,
Under a clear sky, she will see
Black water. She will see me
Swimming distantly, moving far
>From shore, suspended with her
In flight through the wide gulf
As we swim toward land together.

**
Quietly

by Kenneth Rexroth<http://www.elabs7.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=fj6,da6r,dv,1oag,5sxy,3hrs,fxvj>

*Quietly*

Lying here quietly beside you,
My cheek against your firm, quiet thighs,
The calm music of Boccherini
Washing over us in the quiet,
As the sun leaves the housetops and goes
Out over the Pacific, quiet—
So quiet the sun moves beyond us,
So quiet as the sun always goes,
So quiet, our bodies, worn with the
Times and penances of love, our
Brains curled, quiet in their shells, dormant,
Our hearts slow, quiet, reliable
In their interlocked rhythms, the pulse
In your thigh caressing my cheek. Quiet.

"Night Flight" by George Bilgere, from *The Good Kiss*. (c) The University of
Akron Press, 2002. Reprinted with permission. (buy
now<http://www.elabs7.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=fj6,da6r,dv,3cp0,j9k8,3hrs,fxvj>)
And "Quietly" by Kenneth Rexroth, from *Selected Poems of Kenneth Rexroth*.
(c) New Directions, 1984. Reprinted with permission. (buy
now<http://www.elabs7.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=fj6,da6r,dv,m4pi,e0y2,3hrs,fxvj>)



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Anny Ballardini
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