Short Stroke, Long Kick
Don't think about it.
the moment you hit the surface of the water
you're cornered helpless
flushed into an empty room where your fingers begin to sing
or take it as it seems:
a split nature
a glassy-eyed spirit
crawling through snow
your body is closed insulated
cushioned against the vacancy of an endless high noon
so your arms furl
reeling in skeletons of constellations
as if possibility maintained a mechanics of event
from which you are continually excluded.
the rest is a creamy swampgathering eggs from the sea
there is a fluent soothe between them
a foam and a pleasant fatigue
In the incoherent arrangement of fact and sense,
what you need is a better equals sign.
now begin to plant to nurture to harvest
to gracefully spread out on the lower horizon
between surface and substance is a light film
through which you climb hand-to-hand
Each gesture leaves its trace.
But what are you willing to endure?
You can't tell. You never know.
limn to sky
never return to the World
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