The Situation
Things will not be necessarily continuous.
The fact that they are something other than perfectly continuous
Ought not to be characterized as a pause.
There will be some things that people will see.
There will be some things that people won't see.
And life goes on.
-- D.H. Rumsfeld, Oct. 12, 2001, Department of Defense news briefing (link)
Where the Rainbow Ends
I saw the sky descending, black and white,
Not blue, on Boston where the winters wore
the skulls to jack-o'-lanterns on the slates.
I saw my city in the Scales, the pans
of judgment rising and descending. Piles
of dead leaves char the air
And I am a red arrow on this graph
of Revelations.
--- Robert Lowell
grabbing sand
beneath the flaming sky
is to be alive
--- kingyo humiko