repost: a date that will live in (in)famy

part 1: two, and three years ago

Dia de playa

uno, dos

part 2: five years ago

Two Birds, One Fish (heart presently unbroken)

wind

surf

silence

white noise

blue ceiling

green sea

tide in, mind out

a raft

a cinder block

flippers

and snowshoes

scuba

and tank

siphon

and tanker

salt mist spray I taste

brent crude and oxygen

union and undertow

waves crash

(super novae)

in to oblivion

ebb and flow

constant as the moon

part 3: thirty-one years ago

"Darby died from an oki dog"

September 26, 1958 - December 7, 1980

part 4: seventy years ago

"...a date which will live in infamy..."

view of Pearl Harbor in December

part 5: two thousand four hundred one years ago

from Chris Marker's "The Owl's Legacy"