<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=521559" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Out of the Hard Blue</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Out of the hard blue it comes<br>throbbing, powerful, flinging dust and small stones, <br>as it clears the swaying tops of neighboring redwoods, <br>and gives the empty, clear, and calm air <br>substance, color, and turbulence.<br>We shield our eyes and turn away<br>from the spinning propellers as the <br>helicopter floats slowly down<br>closer and closer to the playground: <br>ten feet, six, five, one, done; <br>and lightly resting on gray pavement, <br>on the hopscotch lines and painted stars and planets, <br>the roar of its motor drops from banshee scream <br>to diminished moan, and finally to whisper<br>as blurred blades slow, and the flight finishes, <br>and all motion stops.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the school children take over, shouting<br>as they rush, straining against teachers’ restraint, <br>to see this amazing machine come to visit.<br>They gape at what is usually a speck in the sky, <br>but here it is huge and amazing, <br>up close, and so real! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">After peering in windows, and touching gleaming doors, <br>and the short speech by the pilot, <br>(so cool in shades and blue flight-suit) <br>the scheduled visit ends, and the helicopter <br>springs again to life, and leaps <br>into brilliant May sunshine, into <br>the hard blue sky, and<br>quickly disappears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Steven+Federle">Steven Federle</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=521559" data-title="Out of the Hard Blue de Steven Federle" data-description="Out of the hard blue it comes throbbing, powerful, flinging dust and small stones, as it clears the swaying tops of neighboring redwoods, and gives the empty, clear, and calm air substance, color, and turbulence. We shield our eyes and turn awa..."></div> </div> </div>

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