you could travel through any time
any space, the dog at your heels
swimming hard as you can
oceans divided by invisible lines
suppressed rage powering motion
lightning charging the water
these demarcations cut us in two
the moment you’ve got stride
a shadow appears, just briefly
like a ghost at the mirror, it’s you
reflected sunlight from the surface
that liquid, your chosen lake, your sea
abundantly unstable, sinking ice
an oasis
look at anything closely enough and
it abstracts, the whole dissolving into parts
parts becoming whole
and will we hear the sirens sing?
ReplyDeletetie me to the mast
keep rowing