Flight and Gravity

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icarus flight & gravity
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a story,
a recollection
of 78 summer solstices
bundled in one thought
of when I was young—a carpenter
with muscles, sweating,
lugging planks from lumber stacks 

to half-framed houses, stud walls
proud in sun, precise in ranks
 
……………………………………….  a thought
that segues into a later solstice

down the line, along the way, a solstice
of love and its making, a tale
with science thrown in,
math and passion,
geometry, physics—
stuff
I’d read somewhere, sometime,
picked up or always known
in helical dreams, stuff that
fits and shifts,
all true:
flight
and gravity

Jim Culleny
5/13/19, rev:5/25/20