Notes From The Overground » topeka http://blog.adambresson.org By Adam Bresson Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:25:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 “I fell deeply in love with you somewhere over Topeka, Kansas…” http://blog.adambresson.org/2008/10/10/i-fell-deeply-in-love-with-you-somewhere-over-topeka-kansas/ http://blog.adambresson.org/2008/10/10/i-fell-deeply-in-love-with-you-somewhere-over-topeka-kansas/#comments Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:57:15 +0000 heyadam http://blog.adambresson.org/?p=98 I fell deeply in love with you somewhere over Topeka, Kansas
On a cross-country flight shaky & timid, tossed around by
Pockets of air brazen & angry at us for taking up space
Falling asleep awake in the bland pattern-woven chairs with
Pressed down foam & padding from lazy businessmen leaning
Me dreaming of you when my eyes were shut
Believing in you when they were open because
I remember the way at dinner last night your tongue
Lifted an ice cube up the side of the glass, popping
It into your mouth & through lips I could see you
Clean your iced tea off the ice, tracing letters with your tongue
And the ice cube gave up dissolving into pools
At the edges of your mouth & slipping away down your throat
Following motion with gravity until nothing was left
Except a slight smile on your lips & I’m telling you
Four hours & twenty minutes is more than enough time to
Bring me closer to your body, in dreams made real with
Sweat & passion & bottom-of-the-glass certainties
As this rickety airplane makes unsure noises about
Its velocity, I simply come to conclusions I will carry
Until I touchdown, eyes shocked open as the runway
Rolls under me & Topeka, Kansas is just fading into the middle
A great, wide plain of stops & starts, convinced I’m sitting
Uncomfortably but illuminated
© Adam Bresson

]]> http://blog.adambresson.org/2008/10/10/i-fell-deeply-in-love-with-you-somewhere-over-topeka-kansas/feed/ 0 Adam Bresson Reading At Rapp Saloon (8/29/2008) http://blog.adambresson.org/2008/10/10/adam-bresson-reading-at-rapp-saloon-8292008/ http://blog.adambresson.org/2008/10/10/adam-bresson-reading-at-rapp-saloon-8292008/#comments Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:52:52 +0000 heyadam http://blog.adambresson.org/?p=95

On August 29, 2008, I read at Rapp Saloon, a reading at the hostel in Santa Monica, CA. I read three pieces: “I fell deeply in love with you somewhere over Topeka, Kansas…”, “Its going down…” and “Sit like a woman!…” Please visit www.adambresson.org for more poetry and writing. Hope you enjoy!

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