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Category: Video Poems
I wrote this poem a couple years ago during a train trip from Albany, NY, to Rochester, NY. (The poem is in my book, Unexpected Sunlight.) I shot the video yesterday while traveling by train from New York City to Albany. As always, I like to acknowledge my debt to Dave Bonta for inspiring me to try my hand at video poems.
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3 CommentsInspired by Dave Bonta’s one-minute video poem, here’s my first-ever attempt at mixing video and poetry.
Here’s the text of the poem:
sideways world
I ride my bicycle in a sideways world
keeping my balance while the cars pass overhead
and the cars path beneath
I wear a helmet in case I should fall
though I don’t know in which direction
gravity would take me
I am the only inhabitant of this sideways world
everyone else appears to be walking
at a right angle to me
we don’t make eye contact
I asked you once to go for a ride with me
you tried, but you couldn’t balance
and so I ride by myself in this sideways world
looking for a sideways companion to join me