chrysalis

12.07.2004 - up here

up here
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up here,
  where the curvature of the earth
        is visible
  and the topography of the heavens 
        spreads out beneath you
        in billowing mounds
        with sneak peeks of the ground
          seen through holes in the clouds

up here, the light dances between my eyes 
  and these whispy, heavenly mountains

i imagine myself wing footed
  climbing through layer after layer
    of squishy terrain
  leaping from pile to pile
    of bouncy cotton fluff
    sticking finger in
      pulling out cotton-candy
    refreshing sun, and crisp wind.

up here, in this surreal plane,
  i pass the time reading
  of t'ien and the rulers of antiquity

  i am on my way to foreign lands
    and like their gods of old
    i fly through the clouds
    bathed in light
      faster than the wind

i wonder if i will see
    a dragon, or the Yellow Emperor
    dancing across the surface
    of this ethereal, rivuleted landscape 

i will nod and i will wink
    sharing unspoken truth
    that we are both going in the
      same direction
    towards China, towards home.