December 1997 Poems

These are the poems published in December 1997. The site took a vacation during the holidays.

On my first flight twenty years ago (to Cagayan de Oro 10/16/1977), for the week: Dec 1-7, 1997

impressions ---

taking off is shooting off into a blue infinity

we flew over cotton candy cloud formations

the majestic quilt -- patches of brown and green and yellow laid out in
3-dimensional pyramid of hills

the river gracefully stitched through the vastness and richness of masses
of earth

at one point, we seemed to be diving straight into the deep blue sea

flight is assuming a state of pure poetry

islands reduced to contour maps from way up

i felt a merging of two antithetical emotions -- absolute power and
utter helplessness

anxiety, joy, fear, conquest, peace -- i went through them all today

i had a windfall of extremes of emotion today

take-off : 1:05 pm
touchdown : 2:25 pm

we circled 3 times before touchdown and for a moment i thought that
we were not going to land at all

my ears were objecting to the pressure of changing altitude

For the week, Dec 8-15, 1997

every dawn

i whisper

to the still brilliant moon

while the morning star

attempts to eavesdrop

from a distance away

For this week, Dec 15-21, 1997

the vigil

of the crescent moon

and the eavesdropping

morning star

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