in an instant

he reached out a hand stopped an instant right in its tracks turned it over turned it round peered closely saw strength he saw love he saw sadness joy and tears he saw the future now he saw the now just past an instant of all he was he was he might be gone released …

the chore rebuilt

every minute he’d forget every second he remembered he would never know but would attempt to reconstruct the who that he was by the who he had been in different moments a swirling chronology of himself built up again and up again only staying true for the time it took to build again and new …

pinpointed

I dreamed a constellationin my headI arranged each pinof brightnessjust sothe horsethe wolfthe shapethat matches the outlineof my heartwith every beata new frieze arisenand I dreamedthat I containedall the thingsthey werewhat need for meto gaze upto the sky at nightwhen Icarry all the stars~Poem #471 from a series of poems drawn from the imagination and …

remember was

I remember I remember that I was like an echo of being but I do not know how long between that then and now I remember a moment when I was but I don’t recall the time I was perhaps I was as long as not at all ~ Poem #462 from a series of …

perspective

over time I see time up close when it is happening I see nothing there is only me here but looking back I see this and that and you yourself I watch you afloat among the things we did and you are there I see you I understand just who you were to me through …

substantive

to be some-thing he had to be something for how could he be if he was no-thing how can nothing be and what was he and which was he perhaps a place-mark on the circle route of a journey passing through and then return searching the out-ward scouring the in for traces of a substance …

one-plus-ones

an event where nothing happened a moment that took no time at all what are these things what do they mean is duration filled with emptiness with the empty time of no time left at all how many one-plus-ones does it take to equal something that happens how many moments to make a while how …

gravity dance

as the stars pirouette the sun so the sun in circles adores the earth tied on a line like a ball on a string with the moon in support role through the night dance you stars around the sun where it shines too bright in the sky dance you sun caper on the end of …

uncompressed and all included

he held in his hand an instant of time held it gentle firm carefully twirling spinning tugging from both ends he uncompressed slow coaxing long wide he put the stars inside the sun and the moon put love within inserted tedium as well in he went with the feelings that come and go like that …

versus the construct

not here tomorrow not there today everywhere all the time so long as now nowhere then me versus the construct I know differently every time ~ Poem #409 from a series of poems drawn from the imagination and collected as: a Bachelard reverie.