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By Jack Joseph Smith
He let his arms tip to the pull and suck from the
downward wind and followed. At moments the clouds
wound afore and around him like silver blue fleeces.
The sounds came in lightly, hummed to the identity
of a hymn during birth. He wound across the heavens,
in a delicate downward ryhme on curve, and it was
lasting to see sensations of temperance.
After winding away with one sheer long song of
sound, the sky again opened from this state of
silver texture into the color creations our imag-
inations depend on for life.
A ribbon sured absolute to continuity had been
broken. He had been vanished to the lisps of th-
ought engaged to the infinate spectrum, But there
now before him were seasons and change, demention
and rule again; Contrasting colors and rain with-
holding shadow. But outside of it, outside these
hinges his mind saw as a man. Peering as bodies
unto themselves. Not father or mother to light or
dark; were the stars.
The stars spoke without speaking, as the awed
silent thunder of a huge rock through the air,
coming to your death. Hell was an accident that
animal life would not let be taken from them,
and for these moments of anguish animals and,