It will not break free farthest-away it spans— a line and the middle seam. the bridge from breath to belief, from ridge to ridge the beginning to the end.
In a whisper of a fall The tightrope pulled taut gravity beneath us
--------------------------------------------------- walking the arc tremor My path half-phased, each pause a beating errors
Hold the Blue dot aloft, With a string draw a line right through it ‐-‐-----‐‐‐---------------------------------------- Higher still, a balloon’s great lift pulls the same thread in an upward cloudless drift
---‐‐‐----------------------------------- It's about two city blocks, or two football fields end-to-end.
hung from a Span of 600 feet and does not break From the Lines own weight
------the Catenary Curve— the shape of a flexible string or suspended cables staked between two points under its own weight
The rope between two tall trees in a park, or two light poles on either side of a small canyon or wide field.
If going up. Vertically
lift with 12-ft helium balloon (1,284 feet of rope):(1/4" polyester braided rope), the arc/sag/tension
This is just under the height of the Empire State Building
In open terrain, it would look like a thread rising endlessly vanishing into the sky.
o---------------- sag (~20 ft) ---------------o | | [Pole] [Pole] | | | ~400–600 ft span | | | ~ Ground -------------------------------------------- Cool morning hours: Air is denser and less turbulent as in Clear skies
The rope appears like a glowing wire it vibrates slightly in the hour of light as defying nature's usual paths.
Vibrations hum through the string, like a long, single harp note.
It carries even distant footsteps or balloon-tugging winds
Cool in the morning, warm by noon .Curios path that doesn’t fall.
Slight quivers beneath my feet, are enough for us to hang on to ‐-------------------------------------------------- Others below might find the line Suspicious of its height--
The string—whether hanging across the sky— weight and lift are my partners in tension.
Forevery step is a study in my balance--- we chase distance or meaning. ----------------------------------------------'---