Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

                                                                                                                Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

Looking like a nightmare passage: 

a drowning,

or perhaps he’ll plummet headlong from a rock-face.

Should there be a wreckage washed up on those rocks?

Seeing too much, too clearly can make one blind;

I almost see the cogs turning inside his skull, 

like a mathematician’s,

give me, every time, the person who can work it out,

who sees the other pathways in his head.