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Hans Ostrom - Balloonist's Log, Final Entry

2014-11-07 1 Dailymotion

The field of our day lay ordinarily <br />before us. Gravity and practice <br /> <br />tethered our thoughts <br />to checklists. Helium <br /> <br />swelled fabric beyond wrinkled <br />rainbow to painted light-bulb. Up- <br /> <br />and foreheads; then hats and coiffures, <br />quickly pigment on the landscape. Cheers <br /> <br />littered the wind. We thought <br />we knew the limits. But late <br /> <br />in the day the continent of air between <br />field and cloud shrank to an urgent isthmus. <br /> <br />The causes were final and cited <br />accurately. In the meantime, <br /> <br />we bartered in good faith with Earth, <br />starting with sandbags, moving through provisions, <br /> <br />ending with camera, compass, and hope. <br />Rapid descent reduced the gondola and us to ballast. <br /> <br />By the time the trees and rocks were close enough <br />to name, choice had changed to fate <br /> <br />at a predictable rate.<br /><br />Hans Ostrom<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/balloonist-s-log-final-entry/

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