“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| ready. fire. aim. |
our mind's phonograph needles tap clandestine
hopes in our spines while our necks crane slightly
forward and trigger our eyelids like painted
garage doors to shut. our mouths purse in half-smile
half-wince gestures. accordingly sinews of every muscle
pull and wrap like roots of a great tree. we concentrate
to listen because we have to hear, we must hear
this. this is a falling off, a breathless cliff dive. we are neither
here nor there. we are so intent upon the present
that we are cast as bystanders to our own
inner swan dive along rocky cliffs. these words
must be uttered, this noise must pass. we all
must hear. so that after great effort, our spines wrinkle
back together like exhausted accordions, our heads
lean on our partner’s shoulders, our hands droop like flower
bulbs and we are spent, but content, for we heard
what we had to hear. deep breath. ---
