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| 1 | <!DOCTYPE html> | ||
| 2 | <!-- AUTOCENTO OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE --> | ||
| 3 | <!-- vim: fdm=indent | ||
| 4 | --> | ||
| 5 | <html lang="en"> | ||
| 6 | <head> | ||
| 7 | <meta charset="utf-8"> | ||
| 8 | <meta name="generator" content="pandoc"> | ||
| 9 | <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes"> | ||
| 10 | <meta name="author" content="Case Duckworth"> | ||
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| 12 | <title>Last passenger | Autocento of the breakfast table</title> | ||
| 13 | <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="trunk/favico.png" /> | ||
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| 15 | <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="trunk/style.css"> | ||
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| 21 | <![endif]--> | ||
| 22 | </head> | ||
| 23 | <body id="last-passenger" class="autocento"> | ||
| 24 | |||
| 25 | <article class="container"> | ||
| 26 | <header> | ||
| 27 | <!-- title --> | ||
| 28 | <h1 class="title">Last passenger</h1> | ||
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| 30 | |||
| 31 | <div class="header-extra"> | ||
| 32 | |||
| 33 | </div> | ||
| 34 | </header> | ||
| 35 | |||
| 36 | |||
| 37 | <section class="content verse"> | ||
| 38 | <p><span class="line">Memory works strangely, <a href="roughgloves.html">spooling its thread</a></span><span class="line">over the <a href="when-im-sorry-i.html">nails of events</a> barely related,</span><span class="line">creating finally some picture, if we’re</span><span class="line">lucky, of a life—but more likely, it knots</span><span class="line">itself, catches on a nail or in our throats</span><span class="line">that gasp, as it binds our necks, for air.</span></p> | ||
| 39 | <p><span class="line">An example: today marks one hundred years</span><span class="line">since your namesake, the last living passenger</span><span class="line">pigeon, died in Cincinnati. It also marks</span><span class="line">a year since we last spoke. Although around</span><span class="line">the world, zoos mourn her loss, I’m done</span><span class="line">with you. I mourn no more your voice, the first</span><span class="line">sound I heard outside my body that reached</span><span class="line"><a href="weplayedthosegamestoo.html">into my throat and set me ringing</a>. But that string—</span></p> | ||
| 40 | <p><span class="line">memory that feels sometimes more like a tide</span><span class="line">has yoked together, bound your voice to that bird,</span><span class="line">the frozen, stuffed, forgotten pigeon—my heart</span><span class="line">is too easy, but it must do—to blink, to flex</span><span class="line">its unused toes, slowly thaw to the wetness</span><span class="line">of <a href="cold-wind.html">beating wings</a>, fly to me again, and alight,</span><span class="line">singing full-throated, on my broken shoulder.</span></p> | ||
| 41 | </section> | ||
| 42 | </article> | ||
| 43 | <nav> | ||
| 44 | <div class="anchors"> | ||
| 45 | <a href="backlinks/last-passenger.html" id="backlinks" title="Links to this page"> | ||
| 46 | φ | ||
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| 53 | </nav> | ||
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