Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Towers: Poem 06/23/2021

First day on the new job, or rather orientation. Willis Tower is beautiful, and scuttling around the building filled me with a fearful joy. I attempted to put my feelings into the poem below: 

Empirical 

One morning I will wake and fear you,
already the nausea mutes disbelief. Prometheus 
would sweat and blush, feeling himself rise past 
Olympus. Zeus strikes the building a hundred
times per year. One nightmare about your majesty 
and counting.     


*******

My heart flickers ever onward,
mousey, I dream of you still,
Tower One. I dream in you.  

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