the window seat at night
Cities are germs under a
blacklight;
glass that has been stepped
on, cracks spintering outward;
landscape
separating and
exposing earth's fiery,
red core
oozing up toward
broken crust; Citizens don't
look like
ants as much as they
do fireflies; huge swarms, so
many
they don't seem to move
at all, just like circruitry
on a
computer - clearly
active, yet eerily still.
More than
anything, the ground
blends into the horizon
and looks
like the night. Pulsing,
twinkling stars all across
black land
-scape. We're so concerned
about discovering our
ever
so mysterious
cosmos, we don't see greatness
in the
universes we've
built ourselves. The illusion
is so
believable that
I would open the bean-shaped
airplane
window and dive out,
convinced
I was flying rather than falling.