Night Flight

[siamhussein]

I wonder if, once you are slightly implicated in the gray world, whether the gray world rolls into your zone like a fog or whether you just develop an eye for its guises and can spot it slipping under doors, into train cars, sitting in the seat beside you on a plane from Paris to Detroit. He wore what I took to be captain's bars. But I did not take

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[malkhos]

If you live and work in the world, we all turn sinister after a while whether we mean to or not.

But then, I really am sinister. In Latin, sinister means "left" and I am left-handed. Between that and the reddish hair, I nearly drove the nuns crazy. They tried and tried to correct my sinister-ness by making me right-handed, or dexter but it was hopeless. Are you by chance left-handed?

[siamhussein]

You and my favorite poet, John Rybicki.

http://www.amazon.com/Traveling-Speeds-Issues-Poetry-Prose/dp/1930974353/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_k2a_2_img?pf_rd_p=304485601&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-2&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=1882983793&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=08QVV29D9M7EW63Q080A

My right hand, Iron, is the one I use. But Steel has a sinister scar across the thumb from, no kidding, a polo accident.

[malkhos]

I followed the link to this poet, Rybicki, whose work I do not know; would the volume be worth buying? I would trust your word. The customer reviews were very good, for what that's worth.

Is it customary for fencers to name their hands, or particular only to you? I myself have a hatchwork of tiny scars on my right index finger, but from the mundane, working on a tree farm/nursery in my youth but my weapon was pruning shears.

[siamhussein]

As for Rybicki, I haven't had the pleasure of reading his latest, but I can recommend TRAVELING AT HIGH SPEEDS. Samples of his other work are available everywhere, but this one is typical of his power:
http://www.thevincentbrothersreview.org/rybicki.htm

Oh, my hands. No, this was just a joke. Tennessee Ernie Ford (or Slim Whitman) did a song later sung by Johnny Cash called "Sixteen Tons." I knew all the words at a very early age and would sing it to amuse my mother.

[jermynsavile]

Run like the wind, the gray world is looking for you again...

[siamhussein]

Indeed. Thank you for the warning. Although I will take it as a good sign that my network, as such, had already passed along this information.

The JC Penny tie is a red herring, of course.