By M .J. Iuppa
1.Tonight someone will learn to fly. 2. No one knows exactly when lift off will
occur; yet everyone will feel something cut short when they reach to touch
the powdery outline left on the lampshade. 3. No one will speak of the wings’
phantom weight, but everyone will carry it on their narrow shoulder
blades. 4. The moon’s cool surface. Who survives there? 5.Everyone knows
what happened last time. In the corridor between sun and moon, someone fell
off the roof. 6. No wind for hours. 7. It’s hard sitting here on this weathervane,
suited up in goggles and goose feathers, waiting for the first draft. 8.Where is the story? 9.Someone is running with a flashlight. No one recognizes who it is; yet watch
the flashlight’s beam bounce from the ground into air.10. Everyone feels the pull.
They stare blankly at each other. Imagination is such a killer.
occur; yet everyone will feel something cut short when they reach to touch
the powdery outline left on the lampshade. 3. No one will speak of the wings’
phantom weight, but everyone will carry it on their narrow shoulder
blades. 4. The moon’s cool surface. Who survives there? 5.Everyone knows
what happened last time. In the corridor between sun and moon, someone fell
off the roof. 6. No wind for hours. 7. It’s hard sitting here on this weathervane,
suited up in goggles and goose feathers, waiting for the first draft. 8.Where is the story? 9.Someone is running with a flashlight. No one recognizes who it is; yet watch
the flashlight’s beam bounce from the ground into air.10. Everyone feels the pull.
They stare blankly at each other. Imagination is such a killer.
