Monday, October 8, 2012

Fly-Over State



Fly-Over State



“Everything in
one direction”
—Sylvia Plath

It’s like being emailed—
Into Outer Space somewhere

It’s a one-way Trip—
And there’s No Return

The Westering Experience—
Petered out a century ago

Ole Edvart Rølvaag—
Trying to capture the Push

His Giants of the Earth—
Those Norwegian Emigrants

Dying of a heart attack—
Early in his mid-Fifties

Along with the Germans—
Welch, Dutch, Irish, Czechs

While jets Fly-Over now—
Not even looking down

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