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March 2009, vol 5 no 1
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Jim Kacian
. . . Fluidity
of days not their sameness but the way they slide one into the next without ritual
or belief there should be much to mark them about to cross the equator reverse
my spin but they do not hang on anything like a peg and are distinguished so by
incident but not inherent structure . . . out the window the village of Supang a
bar with sitting men the poets of this culture? instantly recognizable an Indian
restaurant, a bakery, a café, a photo developer travel agencies past this facade the
village probably as it was before hotel and airport made this a stopover a cluster
of shacks placed low amidst the mounded hills and clumps of date
palms well placed to use the abundant rain stopped now
if only for the moment . . .
taking off . . .
the slight resistance
of low clouds |
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