Dimming day’s sunset
Metal birds take off ... descend
Head on his shoulder
Bathed in golden rays
Winged dots in the sky roll
Tracing paths that fan out
Like silken strands
Of an invisible cobweb
Jet engines hum
Crowds mill around
The ones closest
Are also bound
To the city of Hallgrímskirkja
Some to stay
And some to hop
On a flight beyond
To continental Europe
The rush and the rise
We soar towards empty skies
Roads below we know
There’s the spot
Where we have spent
Countless hours
Stuck in the 9am commute
Not tomorrow though
And there in the distance
Is the ocean black
Conspicuous in its darkness
Amber dots twinkle
An inky expanse recedes
Bridges and the bay
Dings of the seat belt sign
Sing to the dozing masses
Close your eyes…
He isn’t next to me
One row ahead
But in the other window seat
My watch: 2am
I peek outside hands cupped tight
Serendipity
What do you search for in the darkness?
Does one even look into darkness?
What do you expect from darkness?
Darkness startled me…
Like when you look through a window
And see that the clouds have changed shapes
Or clouds exist
Where there were none
There it is… the light
In all its shades of glory
Shimmering, dancing
Calling out to me
The only person watching
Into the heart of a void
A void that opens up
To more nothingness
Soft feathers of green
Spiralling down gusts of wind
Boreas' signals
Columns of solar wind
Howling yet mute
A mermaid’s tail
It moved down and to the right
Vivid flares of the night
My nose was glued
To the cold, cold window
Enthralled
By this wondrous sight
Cosmic semaphores
From faraway origins
From ultima Thule
Back when the land was colder
And when mammoths walked this same frozen planet
I doubt if they ever
Gazed up with wonder
But if there ever was a curious calf
Who did witness
This majestic sight
Would it have looked twice?
Alas, we’ll never know
It lies buried and preserved
Deep down in the vault
Locked away from time’s menacing grips
Still a player in this game of time.
It's almost as if
I can listen to the dance
Whirling and falling
Like kids on a merry-go-round
Oh, the mirth! The glee!
The pure innocence of genuine delight
Dragon in the sky
With its shiny verdant scales
Snakes up round and round
Has it been an hour? Or two?
Time has flown like only time can do
I could be here, a frozen pane in eternity
Looking out… but only with him awake beside me
And that was it by the jade fog
It diminished inward to a point in space
And I looked longingly…
Half-expecting an encore
But nature doesn’t dance to my tune
Shooting star flashes
The deep blue infinity
Can't feel my wet cheek
It’s just the condensation
Or so I tell myself
4am Pacific Time
And then the sun rose
The cracks below were revealed
In bright sheets of ice
