Falling Water by John Koethe

Author:John Koethe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1997-10-21T16:00:00+00:00

And every time I hear those tones of voice that

Used to mean the world to me, and which will not

Come back to me again, even the wind turns bitter

And the clouds stream furiously across the sun.

Early Morning in Milwaukee

Is this what I was made for? Is the world that fits

Like what I feel when I wake up each morning? Steamclouds

Hovering over the lake, and smoke ascending from ten thousand chimneys

As in a picture on a calendar, in a frieze of ordinary days?

Beneath a sky of oatmeal gray, the land slides downward from a K-mart parking lot

Into a distance lined with bungalows, and then a vague horizon.

Higher and higher, until its gaze becomes a part of what it sees,

The mind ascends through layers of immobility into an unfamiliar atmosphere

Where nothing lives, and with a sense of finally breaking free

Attains its kingdom: a constructed space, or an imaginary city

Bordered all around by darkness; or a city gradually sinking into age,

Dominated by a television tower whose blue light warns the traveler away.

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