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Article: In Wind.(Poem)
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- Poetry
- Article date:
- June 1, 2006
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In Wind
Here at twenty-thousand feet,
cross-legged, window seat,
the clouds like lily pads, replete,
on a lake made of air, made of light.
I sit where Li Po never could have sat,
nor his river merchant's wife, in her garden hat,
looking long and long, still longer after that,
at the river transforming into night.
Here on the boundaries of time and flight,
I cannot glean what gave her world its weight, its light,
what held her, window-lonely, ...