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Inside to Outside
Shearsman Books
ISBN 0907562809
Interactive
Whatever happened
to the kites
that just stayed up there?
You know the ones,
so difficult to launch,
taking ages to reach their limit
and even longer to reel in.
But mostly you just left them there
and waited, and watched.
And wondered.
About anything that came to mind.
It was a kind of exercise
for the spirit,
working on a line from ourselves
to what was almost immaterial -
a wavering dot,
without a care in the world
but staying up there -
almost out of time,
but holding on
at the same time.
It wasn't so long ago.
And maybe you wonder when it tilted
to the physical,
why it's all pull and jab,
quickness and control,
leverage and release.
You may have heard
it's about how time is spent.
Maybe you caught that.
Chris Gutkind
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