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A NEIGHBOURHOOD OF STRANGERS
Posted by David Selzer in Poetry on November 28th, 2010
Buzzards splayed their wingtips against the sun.
A Phantom entered the glacial valley,
its fuselage burning – the pilot
and crewman still at the controls, their choice made.
In school, it was story time – magical
oak woods, changelings secreted. The children
heard a rushing like oceans. Their teacher
saw the fire approach and two young men,
with a hundred years of technology,
burst upon the huddled village’s
common land… Children dreamt of foreign men
gone to dust in a golden fire for a
neighbourhood of strangers.
A NEIGHBOURHOOD OF STRANGERS
Posted by David Selzer in Poetry on August 21st, 2009
Buzzards splayed their wingtips against the sun.
A Phantom entered the glacial valley,
its fuselage burning – the pilot
and crewman still at the controls, their choice made.
In school, it was story time – magical
oak woods, changelings secreted. The children
heard a rushing like oceans. Their teacher
saw the fire approach and two young men,
with a hundred years of technology,
burst upon the huddled village’s
common land…Children dreamt of foreign men
gone to dust in a golden fire for a
neighbourhood of strangers.
THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS
Posted by David Selzer in Poetry on July 23rd, 2009
Blondin carrying his manager, Harry Colcord, on a tightrope.
Witness The Great Wallenda, an aging
high wire artiste, who, for his final act,
required technology’s summation -
tv, automobiles, bottles of plasma;
crossed a canyon on cable thin as a wrist;
walked on wire a quarter of a mile
above the earth. He stood, twice, on his head
and the crowds of thousands gasped, then cheered,
the noise muffled in that oh! profound gorge.
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