A Shot in the Dark…

I’m not usually one to believe in destiny or prophetic dreams. Maybe it’s just the ex-lit major side of me speaking here, but sometimes I feel like events lead into other events, and our brains subconsciously give us little bits of foreshadowing that we don’t understand until we near the climax.

This past week I’ve been plagued by dreams of past situations gone wrong – and by plagued, I mean every night for over a week. Today I may have been given a chance to make one of those situations right. Maybe? Probably not. I took the chance and the situation is no longer under my control.

I’m not a big Longfellow fan, but this seemed to fit the situation:

I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.

-WWL

Walking 5th Street

This is a video I made a few months ago based on a poem I wrote sometime around the beginning of 2007.  The footage is all from St. Petersburg.  Music by Boards of Canada.