“The origins of the word ‘beat’ are obscure, but the meaning is only all too clear to most Americans. More than mere weariness, it implies the feeling of having been used, of being raw. It involves a sort of nakedness of mind, and ultimately, of soul; a feeling of being reduced to the bedrock of consciousness. In short, it means being undramatically pushed up against the wall of oneself.” Beatnik

Two
Pull me close.

Three.
On summer winds.

Four.
I never wanted to say goodbye.

Five.
The countryside looks bare.

Six.
I’d become smoke.

Seven.
To be a star.

Eight.
Every inch of this body.

Nine.
Your eyes appear.

Ten.
Before my feet left the porch.

The swallows have a cosmopolitan distribution occurring on every continent except Antarctica. A number of European and North American species are long-distance migrants.

series of people & things I met on the road