Wyndmere by Carol Muske-Dukes

Author:Carol Muske-Dukes [Carol Muske-Dukes]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4804-8483-2
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
Published: 2014-04-30T21:04:00+00:00

AFTERWARDS

After our short flight together,

we boarded separate planes

and flew to opposite ends of the country.

The first flight was rough,

you held me and later,

alone on the longer one, I recalled

the perfect gravity of your embrace,

and fell asleep, my dream blooming

backwards into the gentle silks of a chute.

Now, afterwards, I feel like I’m moving

obedient to some physical law people

believe in, but can never describe,

like the principle of air flowing over

the wings of a plane, allowing it to rise.

You sat beside me, holding me to

a perfect understatement of myself,

the way sign language understates thought

rediscovering it in the body.

Here, in another country, your thought

still holds me. You turn,

you say my name to me—

while the plane banks, as the tower dictates.

It has something to do with the power of loss,

how it opposes itself at the last moment.

It has to do with how the plane, lifting off

from this world reluctantly, reappears above it,

effortless in flight. It has to do with how

your lips felt smiling against my ear,

how you held me as we fell,

how falling together, our lives

seemed the only constant objects in the sky

and how impossible it seemed

that thin air would ever

begin to displace us.

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