On Leaving the Country

from In Sunshine or in Shadow

Drifting over the landscape
Schools, churches, homes fade
To train sets and to dollhouses and then to specks
Before they are lost beneath the clouds

I journey up:
Past smog and car horns,
Past worries and deadlines,
Past responsibility,
And suddenly,
Past regret

Rising and turning I travel
Into dark of clouds
A shaky moment in the wind
And then,

Sunshine

On Leaving the Country

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