Saturday, 24 June 2023

#1271 - someone went up in a balloon

 




1271

25.vi.23

4.177

someone went up in a balloon

ekphrastic for Szinyi Merse Pál’s 1878 ‘Léghajó’

 

someone went up in a balloon

there was no need to come back

 

no end to the excitement –

a circle in a square

 

there was that vanishing to air birds do

it is wonderful to have left so much

for who knows where

 

will the gas run out?

 

red cape

he has a tophat still

it’s all impossible

 

and leaning to the earthbound

a puckering of sunlight

where the clouds are far and spread

 

some say he blew his brains out

 

nothing grows as tall as this


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