Friday, April 30, 2021

April Flying Carpet 2021

 As some of us
prepare to creep tentatively
into the world
beyond our doorstep
What is this world?

Is it the ancient and modern world
of privilege and want? *



The globes of constellations
chasing each other
now playing tag with satellites?

The weight of the world
rests on whose shoulders?

Have we learned anything? **
Is it a  Globe of Stereotypes?***
Is it a Globe of Worthless Money? ****
Is it a Globe of Flight*****
where “birds are free
from the chains of the skyway”

--Bob Dylan
Will we travel again
and sense the wonders
of that which is unknown?******

“With dewdrops dripping
I wish somehow I could wash
this perishing world”
   -Basho
*Old globes from Venice
**Rieke Studios 
***Gail Rieke
****Gail Rieke
*****Gail Rieke
******Gail Rieke