KITESCORE #6

KITESCORE #6ACCIDENTALFLIGHT

On February 26, at 11:08 AM, I receive a text message from Jess.

\\ CODAOn March 2, at 11:34 AM, I receive a text message from Jess.

I am away. By the time I get up to the park, Chris, Terence, Luz or the rest of the crew have already managed

to wrangle Mabel IIb back onto its perch. A ratchet strap holds the kite together.

The only evidence of its flight are the newly dislocated spars and a couple of torn flags.

In a week it all comes apart, compressed into three five-gallon buckets of aluminum, PVC flags, nylon joints.

Filmmaker Jacques Cousteau once wrote that he believed “national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence”based on his filmic investigations of the deep sea.