prepare for extremes
the carbomb that blasts you
into a reality so far removed
from the headlines
that it seems like a neo-American
mythology (nights in sleepy hollow)
washed up on the shore like beached pilot whales
whoses inner sonar
failed to give them direction
toward freedom on the horizon,
the line dissolving into royal blue darkness-
awaiting the rebirth of wonder-
the past merging with the future
and a new knowledge
engraved in crystal chips.

we must face it now
or sufficate with
the death of the wind...