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We’re a little higher than a landed aircraft A little further down than when they let you take your seat belts off in the plane A few sleeps from when gravity gets tire and gives up. Aren’t there further galaxies? And layers of atmosphere buried between two vastly different zeniths? Or can’t we fly, walking through yellowed grass? Our shadows climbing above our furthest imaginings? There’s yet fog to be cleared Summer days to rise and fall Rockets will crash and burn miles from their destinations With no one to clean up the dust And yet hands can fit together like scissor handles Bare toes curl the ground like the earth’s first wheels ****** smoke and shadow descend eyes and ears Until we remember only as much as our skin knows the wind We won’t remember in September, and watching idly is forgiven But at one moment, these things meant something- Hands in hands and feet brushing dried out growth Waiting
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Apr 29, 2019
Apr 29, 2019 at 7:59 PM UTC
planes, rockets, and the spaces in between
We’re a little higher than a landed aircraft A little further down than when they let you take your seat belts off in the plane A few sleeps from when gravity gets tire and gives up. Aren’t there further galaxies? And layers of atmosphere buried between two vastly different zeniths? Or can’t we fly, walking through yellowed grass? Our shadows climbing above our furthest imaginings? There’s yet fog to be cleared Summer days to rise and fall Rockets will crash and burn miles from their destinations With no one to clean up the dust And yet hands can fit together like scissor handles Bare toes curl the ground like the earth’s first wheels ****** smoke and shadow descend eyes and ears Until we remember only as much as our skin knows the wind We won’t remember in September, and watching idly is forgiven But at one moment, these things meant something- Hands in hands and feet brushing dried out growth Waiting
Based on the Amy Sherald painting of the same name. You can find that painting here: https://theartstack.com/artist/amy-sherald/planes-rockets-and-s
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Apr 29, 2019
Apr 29, 2019 at 7:59 PM UTC
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