Lake Tear in the Clouds
“Spirals of the Ages”
The symbol of the strength of the Empire State in Albany, the building where Timmy works, was buried halfway down in thick river clouds. This long person of a river, flows swiftly, swollen by all of the recent rain, accepted by itself and suppliers. The sections usually think with skulls, and rowers, working hard, are empty. The dam at the Troy falls seems short and everything in the river bobs, whether it wants to or not, to the beat commanded by the drops that start in the remote region of the Adirondacks at Lake Tear in the Clouds.
The approximate location where Teddy Roosevelt was picnicking with his family in the rain when McKinley was shot. Ancient tears of aboriginal Iroquois still bubble and mingle with the waters, hidden way back in an untouched freshet, a tributary with no name. Call it what you will, if you would ever venture far enough to look upon it. Call it motherfucker, when in cold deep winter you step in it with snowshoes on. And as you get out, on the other side, your shoes pick up 400 lbs of snow and you feel like a cement statue, unable to move. And so your tears are added. Call it home. Call it family. Call it great, calm, spectacular, back to the reality of this day that stays gray. Yet gray has its merits. How about my beautiful hair? Or the weasel's old white t-shirts? Or the secrets kept about the bushes within its dome? A crayon color you know. An industrial carpet, favorite. Let’s not forget Grey Flannel, the old Gray Mare, Zane Gray.
My days are filled with grays and blues and greens and yellow. Although the sun has been hiding above the gray, I still see and feel its comfort. All color, all warmth, all life and loveliness come from within. So from the images of the convex mirrors of life, dreams are distorted. In the workplace, they watch us and mirrors go unnoticed for the most part. So sometimes focus on the primary image they reflect, look directly into that focal point, and you won't learn of dreams but you'll know all about your nose.