| a man and a woman and a ten year old girl
drive past lake champlain they do their laundry in Plattsburgh, New York they pass through Dannemora the woman observes if someone escapes they could hide in the woods near our cabin but there really aren't murderers hiding in the bushes they arrive at chazy lake they go swimming there is a paddle boat , canoe, rowboat |
a husband and a wife and a daughter
are on summer vacation they rent a cabin on chazy lake highway 374 passes by the Clinton correctional facility the wife sees the concrete walls of the prison there are prisoners the wife objects the husband ignores these fears (there are murderers behind every tree) soon they fish and swim and paddle boats leave the prisoners behind their grey walls |
watching
the dryers
finish
the cycle
dry
then fold the clothes
chazy lake
clouds over
mountains behind
boats upon
water
and then in 2015 two prisoners climb out of a tunnel through a manhole cover surrounded by asphalt in the middle
of the road in the town of dannemora having masterminded a daring escape chipping through the concrete walls and crawling through the
prison sewer and then hiding in the fecund woods of the northern adirondaks before being captured, one, or killed, the other, three weeks later
and then the wife reminds the husband that she had expressed her fears of killer convicts escaping prison and hiding in the woods near the
cabin they had rented eight years prior
a polyethylene film tubular shipping package
contains a mini video projector cube
allowing the thrown light
to reveal the figure of a running Man
on both the lower and upper curved surfaces
of the translucent tubes
the legs of the runner separate from the torso
float in spasmodic contortions across the rippled plane
leaving dannemora
the sun disappearing
breaking through the cloud covers
over the mountains in the west
raking the trees with a narrow funnel
nonreal iridescent light
glowing
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