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Horizon

by David Garner

isn't it crazy in the city when it's really late at night/and to look at the horizon is just a bunch of lights/some turned on some turned off/some they're blinking on and off/and others they they are still as the night/when there's light there's bound to be a party/where two strangers now become friends/where their simple hello's never get to goodbye's/they just walk out that door holding hand in hand forever/or where there's light there's bound to be an up-all-night fight where two lovers now become strange/are they saying hello or are they speaking goodbye/they don't know they can't tell/they might as well just say aloha/on the phone he says aloha/off the plane she says aloha/baggage claim he says aloha/they just say that one word that really gets on their nerves/because it means both hi and goodbye

01/28/2008

Posted on 01/28/2008
Copyright © 2025 David Garner

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Kathleen Wilson on 01/31/08 at 06:33 PM

This poem looks like a horizon, and feels like one too... The long spread out lines across the page like what we see and feel looking out from a vantage point at the "horizon", the words like lights, lit, sparkling their meanings, known and unknown back at is. The lovely leanings of the separations have feeling too, and in the "aloha" yes and no of things... I get a strong sense of the simultaniety of experience... the "strangers" "hand in hand forever" and the "all-night fight". Sometimes we are lit brightly with the feeling of all of this happening at once, and this is one of those enlightened moments!

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