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Suki: Yeah. (5/21/05)
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Suki: Yeah. (5/21/05)
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KINGDOM COME
Crammed into the airline seat,
munching stale pretzels,
sipping flat Diet Pepsi,
looking deep inside for
the Kingdom to come.
A baby squalls in the back row.
The lawyer fighting for the armrest,
rolls his eyes toward the sky,
looking heavenward for
the Kingdom to come.
For the twenty nine seconds
between take off and ‘wheels up’,
pilots with practiced eyes
look out to where
the Kingdom comes.
Rushing through O’Hare
while checking monitors
rushers straggle just long enough
to wonder if
the Kingdom ever comes.
Touching tarmac in Tucson
where a sun gone purpled, low
lulls soft desert breezes
to announce that
soon the Kingdom comes.
At home the blinking box
broadcasts that all will stay the same -
skirmishes, wars, rumored wars -
always doubting
that the Kingdom surely comes.
I think more of Kingdoms,
when I ride the winds
on silver rivet wings,
and of that day, someday,
when the Kingdom finally comes.
The spectacle is better
from above these mountains
slowly falling to the sea
where all is smoky haze
and the Kingdom finally comes
on some other travel day
like this. |