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Map of the Realm

From a faceful of dirt to 30,000 ft up, on Everest,
or better yet, on an airplane,
the view of beginning to beginning

(Come over a cloudbank and aha
Some tiny towns are
Really big towns, that way)
Of course you don’t know that you don’t land there

But everything looking postage-sized and pretty
Oh god

It takes Real towns and roads to make forests remote
winding that way
a river with some canoeists on it
a bridge with some canoeists on it
No, Ants crawl
up a table leg

I mean Needles
Pine needles on picnic tables on patios
Are (invisible) real good
Viewed from mountaintops, real good

Except, that when you take a picture
there comes a crowd in a bus
People
Am I late
omg

(With jealousy)

The museum starts to call at 10

Come in
Come in

Tintoretto Seurat we have them all

The travel itinerary
You don’t remember the rest of, its been a long day
(Fog taking you back)

So you take another picture,
go back to the coast

And there’s a sunset
The hotel rooms’ pictures ablaze…

And, is this the earth?
Well
Well the earth’s arms are so immense
that you take the hands off
You put the hands in a jar

And then you dig
You dig
You dig for a while on your knees and elbows