27 august

i.
airport as universe
arrivals and departures
making connections
missing connections
passing sideways through the slipstream
looking forward, down, past
always there is somewhere else to be
always someone else to blame
someone else to rush toward

ii.
time of the essence -- or not
waiting: meditation, expectation, frustration
the space between
and yet here
dearly beloved strangers
gathered together to celebrate
anything but this

(no moralizing, please --
perhaps a magazine?)