Another Tuesday
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LookingbbbbbbThe
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atbbbbbbbbbbbhe
thebbbbbbbbbbdances
speckbbbbbbbband
seeminglybbbbbsoars
milesbbbbbbbbbbetween
abovebbbbbbbbthe
me, Ibbbbbbbbbbuildings,
push my legs into the solid earth, as if to keep him
from falling.bbbthe more afraid I am that I will fall.
by Judy Kamilhor
September 14, 2003
For Philippe Petit* on the second anniversary of September 11, 2001
For those who don't know who Philippe Petit is, he was the acrobat/daredevil/visionary who set up a tightrope between the Twin Towers a few years after it was built, and walked back and forth eight times, without a harness or anything else keeping him attached. The Ken Burns series on New York City included the footage, and was shown on the second anniversary of 9/11.
It was while watching this documentary, that I finally felt all my feelings about the attacks. The first two years I turned my feelings into political and cultural cartoons that sprang out of me on an almost daily basis starting a few days after the attacks.
© Judy Kamilhor 2007
posted by Judy Kamilhor at
11:08 AM
9 Comments:
enjoyed this judy
john
That's powerful!
Thanks John and Suzy.
kami
I like "that I will fall." So true.
There's something really metaphysical about this one. Maybe it's also about the split between our eternal original and our 'fallen' self-image...!?
Thanks Bill and Borut.
Welcome back, Borut. I've missed your thought provoking comments.
kami
I like the imagery!
I am glad of your way of processing the unthinkable!
It's very positive.
This is such a great poem, Judy. It's visually beautiful and so evocative of the incredible tightrope walk, and also the impermanence of those immense towers. They always seemed slightly unreal to me, looking at them from the Brooklyn Promenade. It's still strange that they are gone. Thanks for posting the poem.
Lisa
Thanks Isabel and Lisa.
I'm grateful to have a forum to share this poem again. It was my first visual (concrete) poem, and have since written many more shorter visual poems.
kami
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