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It's like our height and vantage
Put our homes in alignment
I'll watch your six and you can watch mine
This is lightness, this is bliss
This isn't free fall
We can control this
If I drop my arm
I'll take a swoop to the side
I'll grade your barrel rolls if you critique mine
― The Speed of Sound in Seawater, "Unassisted Human Flight"
It's the sleepers and the steel
Or the black-root and the vine
But my place is the space between
The past and the horizon line
Can you hear that old horn blowin'
Every time you close your eyes?
And behind every bolted door
Is there a voice you recognise?
Singing prayers, singing curses
Singing all about the dream
To everyone caught in the headlights
Caught in the whistle and steam
In the whistle and steam
― Thea Gilmore, "Whistle and Steam"