Tuesday, May 25, 2021

The Touch

 


I touch the surface; it touches me, my finger.

The worry of water passes through me as laughter;

the whole world convulses and becomes still again.


And now I am aware of the world below,

the depth, the increasing murk, the blackness;

that otherness beneath my shimmering self.


In that sky I must be no more than a cloud;

remember the delicacy of this touch

and the eyes that watch my boat’s hull passing.

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