The brief hesitation at the top of the swing
where some things happen
and the swing back
where nothing happens
and the arc between where
some things happen and some things
don’t
until the pendulum slowly stops
and the poverty we live through
and the eternity we end in
appears to all of us whether we
want it or don’t
don’t we?
Jack McGuane
A house in a tornado of sound
A spaceship heft with music
Imagine you were hammering
on that house for the first time, hammering
in the basement, on the roof, Thor finding roof
with your hammer, all anti-gravity, finding where
the shingles go, floating loose with your steering wheel ear
Could you imagine if you were
the architect and the carpenter and got
to hold that fucking hammer
What if you were holding
that fucking hammer on your spaceship,
Miles above Earth, banging out the orbit,
inventing the most important work
in the Universe
~Lady
