pax
ONE love, blood, life
A man inhaled and the ocean disappeared.
Just like that, the people could walk
from Halifax to their ancestral home in the Highlands,
between Belfast and Boston with equal ease.
Suddenly the Catholics had all the Ireland they could ever want,
and the Protestants dethroned the Pope gladly
all across what was once the Atlantic.
The Haitians spread out, whole families rejoicing in whole fields,
while the Cubans ran to Miami for tearful embraces and decades-old gossip
and the royalty of Ghana met their descendants in Savannah.
The vast ocean having been aspirated
by the goodness of the man with great lungs,
there were also simpler gatherings
of plain folk merely meeting in the middle,
as one and the other went for a stroll
and ended up sharing a cafe table
somewhere just below 45 degrees north and 30 degrees west.
There have been stories of brand new colonies
growing up around just such tables,
born from American eyes falling in love with European hands.
This, it seems, is actually something like
what the man who inhaled the ocean had in mind.
Just like that, the people could walk
from Halifax to their ancestral home in the Highlands,
between Belfast and Boston with equal ease.
Suddenly the Catholics had all the Ireland they could ever want,
and the Protestants dethroned the Pope gladly
all across what was once the Atlantic.
The Haitians spread out, whole families rejoicing in whole fields,
while the Cubans ran to Miami for tearful embraces and decades-old gossip
and the royalty of Ghana met their descendants in Savannah.
The vast ocean having been aspirated
by the goodness of the man with great lungs,
there were also simpler gatherings
of plain folk merely meeting in the middle,
as one and the other went for a stroll
and ended up sharing a cafe table
somewhere just below 45 degrees north and 30 degrees west.
There have been stories of brand new colonies
growing up around just such tables,
born from American eyes falling in love with European hands.
This, it seems, is actually something like
what the man who inhaled the ocean had in mind.
go pax!
