Bridges

I've never liked walking over

those swaying pedestrian bridges

featured in travelogues.

Maybe I read "The Bridge of San Luis Rey"

by Thornton Wilder

at an impressionable age.

Its lesson was clear to me:

To cross the ravine or the river

on one of those rickety rope bridges

was to gamble with your life.

 

The connection with today's

desperate attempts to build new bridges

toward a better future

is instructive.

Our new bridges, though built from grass roots,

must be strong enough to bear the weight

of our jointly imagined future.

Let's hope some of the builders

are brilliant engineers.

 

 

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