“A former pilot looks back over his life - The Earth, the Sky, the Woman - everything that took place on the journey from an air strip to an abandoned boat house.”
Make sure to hang
your wings out to dry
as the red flowers
blossom nearby.
“Does it have to do
with death?”
he wondered.
“Why yes,”
he replied,
“it always
has to do with death.”
Death and paper
airplanes. Goggles
and wind
above the clouds.
Directed by Latvian filmmaker
Vladimir Leschiov,
the silent short film
Wings and Oars
it is a melancholic
look back
on a life lived.
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