Flash View
At 30,000 feet
During any normal flight
You sit relaxed after reading the pouch advertising
And realize there is little or no sense of motion
Only the engines causing a sort of mantra
This sets the mind wondering
Wondering about travel
Is Boston to L.A. but a figment of universal mind?
What with the drone of engines the closeness
I sense heaviness
My butt on the seat
Then closing my eyes amazingly sense suspension
Such a charming out-of-body vacuous state
As though wrapped up softly by angelic arms
Is this displacement of the rational mine alone?
NO!
Many even everyone has moments of complete evacuation
YES!
Suspended in space
Just a dot on the map between Boston and L.A.
And not just a dot
A mind-warp into the infinite
The infinite has so ordered time and space -
A trip from Boston to L.A. -
All was needed being simply unthinking acceptance
This flash of this so recently gathered intuition opens my eyes
A child across the aisle picks his nose
The freak closes them once again
Settling gradually settling......I'm out the window
Into the billowing clouds!
Then descending so gradually
Until the whole Earth is spread before my universal eye
Focusing
Focusing so gradually
On a single perfectly square plot.....
In the center the perfect geometric center this farm house
I'm through the exact center of the roof
My transmogrified eye fixed......
A gravy spot on a dining room tablecloth
Copyright © Daver Austin | Year Posted 2009
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