There is a sky behind the sky, and when you unmake your bed at night, there is a sheet pulled taut beneath the sheet, and when you peel a perfect orange, there is a skin beneath the rind, as there is a hinge inside a engine, a machine inside a sword, an action in inaction where a screen scrolls slickly back, where your pupil dilates, when you speak or read a word, when and where a snow globe settles when and where the season turns, inside you and outside of you, behind you and before you, above you and below, as you are flying across the country above new and perfect clouds with new and perfect clouds below, and now the clouds are inside of you, and you take them everywhere you go.
Jasmine Dreame Wagner is the author of Rings (Kelsey Street Press, 2014,) Rewilding (Ahsahta Press, 2013) and Listening for Earthquakes (Caketrain Journal and Press, 2012.) Her writing has appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Blackbird, Colorado Review,Indiana Review, NANO Fiction, New American Writing, Seattle Review, Verse, and in two anthologies: The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (Ahsahta Press, 2012) and Lost and Found: Stories from New York (Mr. Beller's Neighborhood Books, 2009.) A graduate of Columbia University and the University of Montana, Jasmine has received grants and fellowships from the Connecticut Office of the Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Hall Farm Center for Arts & Education, Summer Literary Seminars - Kenya, and The Wassaic Project. She teaches creative writing at Western Connecticut State University.
This is a very imaginative story. I enjoy the connections, and agree that there ae many things we carry inside.
A fantastic tale, with a sense of hurtling through, in and around everything around us.