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Constantly Risking Absurdity(#15)

Published on May 12, 2018

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Constantly Risking Absurdity(#15)

By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Photo by Ivana Cajina

Constantly risking absurdity

The poet like an acrobat
climbs on rime

to a high wire of his own making

and balancing on eyebeams

Photo by David Klein

performing entrechats
and sleight-of-foot tricks
all without mistake

Photo by Carlos Doncel

before the taking of each stance or step
toward that still higher perch

Photo by oatsy40

where Beauty stands and waits
with gravity

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to start her death-defying leap

Photo by Miguel Bruna

a little charleychaplin man
who may or may not catch her

Photo by ALP STUDIO

spreadeagled in the empty air of existence.

Photo by Zac Ong