These poems are a journey into the whereabouts of all there is. The guiding compass is all touch and go, nowhere being the same as everywhere in my calendar which is always hanging dangerously close to the fire in the fireplace, the fire that isn’t burning, and still the danger is felt in the very waiting because I don’t need fire and I am afraid I’ll retreat into the usual expectations. I would like to also offer two lines.
The first is from a song by Kris Kristofferson, entitled “Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends.” The line is: “Never is just an echo of forever.” The next line is the title of a book by Krishnamurti: Freedom from the Known. And furthermore, a slight alteration of a quote by Walt Whitman: “Do I repeat myself? Very well then I repeat myself . . . I contain multitudes.”
Gordon Carrega (born 1944) is the author of three other books published by Sharpgiving Press: Out of Here and Now, Blind Study and Other Poems, and Later for You. He has also published several books of prose poems, and has published in various magazines. He immigrated from Berkeley, California, to Berlin, Germany in 1987.
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