Free Fall

apple tree under which Newton sat in 1666

Have you ever had one of those dreams where you are free falling. It’s not the one where you are caught with your pants down. No secret is being revealed. Rather you have taken a chance, leaping from the high dive, now out of control. However, from a Newtonian point of view, you are only accelerating at 32.2 feet per second squared. Of course the terror lies in the unknown, in what happens between the diving board and the water. The Cyclone at Coney Island peaks slowly but its descent which is obviously faster always seems as if it were taking forever. When will this stop? When you wake up, is the answer. But is it the dream that breaks the fall or the fall that cuts short the dream?

read "The El" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star

and also read "Punk" by Francis Levy, Vol.1 Brooklyn