Sunday, September 24, 2023

Terminal Velocity



The blur through a window

from a moving train-

Escape is jumping

Off-another adventure


The temptation to forget

Your given name-

Every thing is new

Once


Or more, 

how many places and things

to see

versions of yourself


Landing 


Through the pane.



Painting by Eva Stort, Deutsch: Blick aus dem Fenster (Schöneberg). Signiert. Datiert 1890' in Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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