Brian Taylor - BLONDIN WALKING THE TIGHTROPE

Everyman is Blondin,
Every lifetime a rope,
finer than a spider's thread,
sharper than a sword,
stretched between birth and death
(breath and breath)
across Niagara.

(Charles Blondin, a French acrobat, was the first man ever to cross Niagara Falls by tightrope in 1859.)

Brian Taylor

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