Cecilia White #6: noting this (dedicated to Paul)

noting this

in the end

we all need to be carried

dead weight of departure

too much to bear alone

you reasoned too soon

with your opiate driver

timing

is everything, you said

with memory looking

ahead at a dust storm

that inexplicable twist

of light and weight

lifting off a map

you never found or

couldn’t quite see

with living in the way

perhaps you were lost

in books or trees

they often look the same

with their naked intent

in particular

the calligraphy of silver birch

deep ink strokes

moving between sky and skin

and you transported

in that same vein

breath reading leaves

to the end of sound

location

is everything, you said

rising from the road

on ink, air and wood

noting this

will not happen again. 

cw, with love