Sunday, January 10, 2010

Verticals (by JMA)

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  1. QAvePressJanuary 11, 2010 at 9:19 AM

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  2. QAvePressJanuary 12, 2010 at 5:13 AM

    Verticals

    I'm always hungry
    for movement up,
    even walking down
    a narrow street
    toward some horizon
    line seems like climbing
    out of some lower place,
    and I like best my rooms
    up high--my favorite
    part of the city
    is above. I'm tired
    of the spaces close
    to the ground. Give
    me the 23rd floor,
    let me look into empty
    offices and watch
    a late night cleaner
    sweeping her rooms
    in her underwear,
    let me watch specks run
    down there for the bus
    creeping away. I'll clean
    the other forehead prints
    on the windows the maid
    forgot because that means
    I'm not the only one who
    has been here looking
    down. I'm not alone in
    this ecstasy of altitude
    wanting to run my fingers
    across the slender keys
    these buildings become
    as dusk rises to darkness
    from the ground below.

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