From f00d869e4c0e64be6093e4980e62e3c9b9b33cc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 10:36:44 -0700 Subject: Add links to Elegies; write TODO.txt --- 37-swansong.txt | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) create mode 100644 37-swansong.txt (limited to '37-swansong.txt') diff --git a/37-swansong.txt b/37-swansong.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eb25357 --- /dev/null +++ b/37-swansong.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +--- +title: 'Swan song' +project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' +... + +Swans fly overhead singing goodbye \ +to we [walkers of the earth][ithappened]. You point \ +to them in formation, you tell me \ +you are not you. You are the air the swans \ +walk on as they journey like pilgrims \ +to a temple in the south. A curtain \ +there separates me from you, swans \ +from the air they fly through. I say \ +that you are no longer the temple, \ +that you have been through fire \ +and are now less than ash. You are \ +a [mirror][] of me, the [air without a swan][trumpet]. \ +Together, we are each other. You \ +and I have both nothing and everything \ +at once. We own the world and nothing in it. + +[ithappened]: 22-howithappened.html +[mirror]: 28-moongone.html +[trumpet]: 43-deathstrumpet.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81