NVN Saturday: FOOTAGE
by Kai Jensen
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The bridge falls so quickly. The ship seems stationary like a fat little house alight behind the dark lattice tiled with coloured rectangles or a plump insistent animal nudging a leg for food. On air, laconic voices discuss the situation. It seems there’s a crew up there. The pilots wring their hands— their bad dream’s turned real. Nothing seems to change but the bridge falls all at once, its cobweb drooping then brushed away. The men dozing in their cabs awake to death. A city stalls.
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Kai Jensen’s father was born in Baltimore, the site of the recent bridge disaster, while Kai was born in Philadelphia. As a child he emigrated to New Zealand with his family, and is now an Australian. Kai works from home as an editor at Wallaga Lake on the Far South Coast of New South Wales. His poems have appeared in most leading Australasian literary journals and, in the United States, have been published in or accepted by The Inquisitive Eater, Men Matters Online, The NewVerseNews, Rattle and The Fictional Cafe.