May 18, 2014
There is only movement without sense of movement.
We are like that painting of Washington
crossing the Delaware and we are caught crossing
never moving forward or backward, but only caught in the instant
of the crossing
hanging on this or that person's wall
They are dragging the boat out of the water,
dragging the boat forward now,
lifting the front end so that you have to lean into the lift,
so that you are aware of yourself as a weight to be balanced
and there is the slow crunching of the wood against sand
and stones on the beach.