Photograph by Lenore Goodell, The 7th Bridge, Las Conchas, Jemez River, New Mexico |
the river
flows
out of
time
and time
flows
out of
the river
as water
molecules
do not
suffer
from
over
population
and the
suggestion
of dry
future
begins
to dry
the future
as
the future
bends
to meet
the past
and comes up
in the present
worry
of things
tied to
uncertainty
the great
metaphors of
all time
fail in
the heart
as
faces
meet
faces
and
the rock you
were standing
on
dislodges
and you
almost
fall
but catch yourself
and think
I can’t
afford to
fall
to mistake
myself for
another
person
I focus
always
on
the same
present
which hovers
blurred
meaning
of time
words fail
more words
flowing on
to break fast
with the past
lay this
heartbreak
where it
always
is
the scheme
in time
is always
to get away
but tied
in it
the pain of
self-imposed
suffering
indulges
itself
because
it can’t
free
itself
from
knowing
it’s attached
and won’t
let go
the old
techniques
won’t work
work
doesn’t work
on it
life
is a heart
beating
against
itself
preparing
to free
everything
from
itself
as if
it can
it reads
its mind
and shakes
free without
falling
to liberate
hearing the voices
from
the other room
hope
looks at
itself in
the mirror
and
dissolves
to rest on
that glowing
live self
what is it
as you
whisk away
the unnecessary
drudge by
free association
with the freeing
intellect
the body
safe
follows
that burning
center
is just like
an engine
the refueling
heart, everything
is functioning
so much better
than your thinking
of itself
your maudlin
milieu
your dampened
opinion
of every
passing
thing
gets
in the way
of
your pleasant
efficient
functioning
have heart
on that
and let off
the nails in
the fantasy
coffin
nothing exterior
exists
but center
with this
flowing
need
and
the smoke
does get
blown
away
to see clear
just what
it is
that catches
the imagination
to pull heart
up again
walk on
solid rock for
a change
let
nature
in
by
going
out
out more
as in
here
revivifies
simplifies
reminding
the cycles
are as old
as life
and can’t be
avoided
that water
will come
come back
as the blood
flows
knowing more
than
in tune
with singing
if need
be
thus
the river
flows
out
of
time
and
time
that teeny
bell
floats
out of
the river
sparse
as it
is
still
flowing
as
always.
larry goodell / placitas, new mexico / 12June2011
/ for all lovers and beholders of water . . .
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