walking

 

I thought

Felt

I was walking

I was

Moving

Standing  

Legs together

Feeling the viscous air layers laminate

around 

over me 

turning left

then right

Flicking images

Of streets  

Of Suburban mediocrity

Floated

Smoothly

Silently

By

Looking down

I moved my left

And then my right foot

Forward back 

anxious

I looked up

Around 

Alarmed

as my speed increased

with every movement

like an obelisk of fright

Standing 

In disbelief

Head turning

Now in panic

As I could not grasp

The

Continuing

Silent

floating

movement

Dazed disorientated 

As animated

Familiar

suburban

houses

moved

shimmered by

people

walking

gardening

washing the car

oblivious

a dog

goggle eyed

in an instant 

rigidly aware

tracking

my passage

with a slow

disbelieving

turn of the head

suddenly

rippled into frightened flight

a wry smile

a strangled laugh

as the absurdity

of these fleeting moments

amused

distracted me 

tentatively

arms slowly

gingerly

extending

into a flying  

stricken crucifixion  

dragging

slashing scrubs

scattering

chattering leaves

forever accelerating

the glow

of exhilaration

eclipsing my face

suddenly playful

As a smile

Widened

As delight walked across my face 

suddenly

Laughing out loud 

Stunned incomprehension

slid into amused disbelief

wonder

Uninhibited joy

fearlessly

Wildly  

breast stroking

Turning

Back stroking

Ever escalating the acceleration

I

Dropped to my feet 

Head down

Watching as my feet

Hovering

Oblivious to sound

Lashed by the long grass

A blurred field

stung

Clutching my knees

In

Total Incomprehension

What is this? 

escalating fear

crippled consciousness

sensations of a gathering speed

Eyes shut

exhaling

letting go

Lying down

Completely horizontal

Eyes bounce open

skies

clouds rolling over me

flickering sunlight

forever silent

forever faster

I sped 

forward

Eyes watering

Clothes rhythmically flapping

Flogging me

with the escalating speed 

head turned

Suddenly aware

Of my shadow undulating over the ground

chasing me into

green wheat fields 

leaving a bowed wake

as the wheat husks

sway

in disbelief

Stunned

Laying immobile

rigid

fear 

Watching the sky gather pace

Enveloping panic 

Head turning

A path flicked by

A road

Thrashing

Gliding

Effortlessly

At speed

under a truck 

The blink of shadow crossed my face

Launching me 

into cascading blurred metal projectiles

as gathering pace 

I woosh

glide

between cars 

startled into panic 

pumping arms

deflecting

bouncing

ricocheting

thumping between cars 

suddenly audible

the assault of sound

screeching tyres

piercing acrid

burning rubber clouds

collectively awake

startled looks

tracking heads

screams

shouts

you are going the wrong way

in rigid panic

hands

grabbing thighs

head locked to the skies

eyes closed 

springing open

startled

as instinctively aware

I plunge

into a cool

trashing

green gauntlet of flickering

springing

whipping branches 

ferns reddening tearing

flaying flesh

ripping

shredding clothes into a swirling

whirling ticker tape vapour trail

spat

launched

into blinding sunlight

at eye watering  speed 

clothing strips

flogging me with increasing rapidity

chattering against the wind

as I stream over green manicured lawn

blood running

driven horizontal by the rushing air

flick path

flick beach 

raising 

sucking sand in my tumbled

turbulent wake

gathered people

frozen in disbelief

break free

sprinting

shouting

screaming

running in pursuit 

lunging

clawing

falling away

as the sandy whirlwind ribbon of my trajectory

hurls me towards the sea

fleshy cheeks

wobble gyrate

buffeted by my velocity

shaking

pounded feet

crashing waves

skimming peaks

showering cool stray

stinging salt

driving rapid blinking eyes

strobing visions of an endless curved emerald horizon beyond my feet

toes

rigid dripping

thumping

thud thud thud thud

rhythmically

crushing wavering caps

plumes in my undulating wake

pointing

skipping towards the horizon

hair sodden streaming in flight

head tilted

rocketing

curling into a towering wave

a thundering shot

in a blast

a fanfare of atomised spray 

catapulted

skyward

beyond sound

gripping tighter

head gyrating

left

right

looking down

at the disappearing

cloud washed sea

ears pop

as I am launched

into a failing sun

chasing a rising moon

Freezing air

laminating over my naked reddened body

heart palpitating

hyperventilating in increasing panic

grasping air

rolling head  

swooning

as light

falls away

in this starry unfolding

I slide effortlessly

into cosmic silence 

timeless

beyond the troposphere

leveling

drifting

towards the thermosphere

the last warmth

caressing my side

slowly

apprehensively

blinking eyes

aware of my floating body

adrift

beyond the exosphere 

the last window to the universe

the gravity of silence

naked

alone

suspended

weightless

innocent in a leaden silence

my last breath

a final exhortation

a sigh

as I slide into a deep peace 

Born again to the beauty

The wonder of it all

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

roco