"Fate," by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Far Away and Above

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Far Away and Above

If you don't have any
expectations, everything's
a surprise, and the crowd
of disappointments gets
thinned considerably.

So I'm using a day
off as a day off
from expectation.

Just breathing
is an accomplishment--
vital, in fact.

Far away and above,
a light airplane
buzzes in the
ear of the sky.
I hadn't
expected that.


Copyright 2011 Hans Ostrom

"Intellect," by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Bitter-Sweet," by George Herbert

"Hurricane Season," by Hans Ostrom

"The laws of God, the laws of man," by A.E. Housman

"The Silver Swan," anonymous (1612)

from AMERICA, by James M. Whitfield

Sonnet 94, "They that have power . . .," by William Shakespeare

"The Old Folk," by Tove Ditlevsen, translated by Nadia Christensen

"The Giantess," by Charles Baudelaire

"You and You," by Hans Ostrom

"Dust-Off," by D.B. Cox