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Forever Point Strangely Upwards
by Stephanie Lane SuttonSomething to spice up my walks,
the lifelong wanderings in the courts of Milan & France:
a science fiction story.
The lake in my bedroom
fixed a half-smile in the world’s imagination,
with its strange codes hidden
in the deepest puddle of coolness.
The canyon gorged out of a mountain
casts an inviting shadow
(the distinct broom-riding shadow)
over the town’s martini bars.
A resident madman’s fingers
forever point strangely upwards.
The fingers point longingly back home.
He says connection to a place
gives benefits similar to love
and a system of proportions explains,
as Newton’s rule of gravity did,
objects go on moving forever
if something doesn’t stop them.
We didn’t have the math for it.
12/25/2009 Author's Note: A collage-and-cut-out poem: the lines used in this poem were taken from two articles, one about Leonardo Da Vinci and the Da Vinci code, the other about the importance of a connection to place and the sightings of "witches" on broomsticks in a town in Southern mid-West.
Revision posted Christmas Day 2009.
Posted on 11/28/2007
Copyright © 2010 Stephanie Lane Sutton
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