friday the 15th we made sale with the
morning tide
i have been quarantined to a storeroom
away from the other passengers and crew
all i want to do now is return home
my dear sick smith i am in desperate
need of your help
i got hooked on a journal written in
1849 by a dying lawyer during the voyage
from a pacific isle to san francisco
half the book is missing it's completely
killing me a half-finished book is after
all
a half-finished love affair
what are you reading
old letters why do you keep reading them
i don't know just trying to understand
why we keep making the same mistakes
over and over
our lives and our choices each encounter
luisa ray spyglass magazine right
suggests a new potential direction
that's it
the music from my dream
i call it the cloud atlas sextet their
home movements i wrote imagining us
meeting again and again in different
lives
different ages
what are you doing in here
we cross and re-cross our old tracks
like figure skaters
the love of my life
what would happen to her
i can't explain it
but i knew when i opened that door
i heard it in a dream
as in a nightmarish cafe
blaring bright light
underground and no way out
and the waitresses
who had the same face
reason to hide
i know you are
sunmi
451
yesterday
my life was headed in one direction
today
it is headed in another
you ever think the universe was against
you
where's our money the law said law
fear
belief
love
phenomenon that determined the course of
our lives
these forces begin long before we are
born and continue after we perish
our lives are not our own
we are bound to others
past
and present
and by each crime
and every kindness
we birth our future
i have begun to fear i may never hold my
beloved
the problem you create is a political
one
yesterday
i believed i would never have done what
i did today
i feel
like something important
has happened to me
is this possible
i just met her and yet
i have fallen in love with louisa ray
saving me twice a year
i'll catch
there is a natural order to this world
and those who try to upend it do not
fare well
so
i believe there is another world waiting
for us six months
a better world
and i'll be waiting for you there
you