Calligraphy
Your interest in calligraphy shines through here:
· Line & Gesture: The condensation trails, jagged tree lines, and cursive flight paths are all about the quality of the line—its tension, flow, and interruption.
· Tool & Hand: The planes are brushes, but the hand is the mind. This mirrors the calligrapher’s discipline: the tool executes, but the intention and energy come from the artist’s inner state.
· Cursive Writing: “We all fly cursively in dreams” is a powerful idea—our dream trajectories are a connected, personal script, written in loops, leaps, and sudden stops.
Overall Interpretation
The poem seems to depict the subconscious mind performing its conflicts through the metaphor of aerial combat and calligraphic mark-making. The sky becomes the page; the dreaming body becomes the pen. The result is not pretty or peaceful, but a veiled, tangled, visceral record of our inner struggles—a “vertiginous self” written in transient lines against the void.
It’s a fusion of mechanical, bodily, and artistic imagery. It suggests that our deepest selves are expressed not in clear declarations, but in these frantic, elegant, defensive gestures across the dark parchment of sleep.