{"id":756,"date":"2016-03-31T11:40:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T18:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/camino-wenvid16\/?p=47"},"modified":"2016-03-31T11:40:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T18:40:07","slug":"arrival-and-flying-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/caminomap\/arrival-and-flying-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrival, and Flying at Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

I arrived in Barcelona’s airport (BCN, there’s more than one) at 6:50 am this morning. I don’t know how long I’ve been awake, or how many hours I’ve really experienced. I know that on the 30th of March I woke up at 5:00 am to go to Seatac, I spent about an hour in JFK, and I finally got to my hostel around 9:00 am on the 31st having finally seen Star Wars: the Force Awakens, and only slept a bit.<\/p>\n

I did write a poem though! So here it is:<\/p>\n

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I should probably be\u00a0asleep right now, but I’m not.<\/p>\n

Instead, I looked out the window.<\/p>\n

We are above a layer of clouds. The moon is a perfect half, and the stars are bright.<\/p>\n

A light flashes, pulses, illuminating the wing of the plane.<\/p>\n

I recognize none of the constellations.<\/p>\n

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The layer of clouds is broken, and there is darkness below.<\/p>\n

There is more light in the ever-cold void than there is on the planet that is my home.<\/p>\n

Dark swirling water<\/p>\n

Far beneath me.<\/p>\n

And far, far, incomprehensible distance underneath the skin of the ocean’s surface<\/p>\n

Is the crust of the earth,<\/p>\n

As unreachable and inhospitable as the stars.<\/p>\n

I do not know if that collection of stars is a constellation,<\/p>\n

But to me it looks like a dancer.<\/p>\n

Dancing with jou as the cosmos spins.<\/p>\n

Everything spins.<\/p>\n

There is nothing in the universe, it seems,<\/p>\n

That is unaffected by the impulse.<\/p>\n

The impulse to whirl about wildly or solemnly, and this constellation honors that.<\/p>\n

There is nothing that does not have movement,<\/p>\n

Have rhythm,<\/p>\n

In the entire universe.<\/p>\n

Anyway,<\/p>\n

That’s how the view out my window made me feel.<\/p>\n

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I’m having a great time, by the way! I’ll write more about what I did today and my thoughts on Barcelona later. Right now it is finally dark out so that means I have defeated the jetlag and can go to sleep. To sweet, beautiful, sleep. Ahhhhhhh…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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