Red Balloon
Why I write Why you tie a balloon to a string — To stay. To be. To hold onto something: A string of words, taut with grammar’s gravity; pulling down the up of the soul; keeping life, gently, to the place, and in the shape of a hand. A red balloon: urgent yet delicate — and difficult to miss, should I lose my language and drift, lift, sentence-less, syntax-less, into the open poem of the sky.