- A sufficiently interesting life
- is essentially unpredictable.
- Thus my lack of drowsiness
- on the bus headed to work
- after awakening three times
- by car alarms in the night.
- Thus the large muscular rat
- on my back fence that I spotted
- from the kitchen during yesterday’s heat.
- Thus the fresh clean smell
- of the underarm of my dress shirt
- in spite of having performed in it
- thoroughly before.
- How then do we continue?
- How then do promises keep
- and sleeping cats sleep?
- Is constancy a bore? Is risk a whore?
- One sees the tree in the woods
- the leaf on the tree
- and the pore on the leaf.
- One narrows one’s view
- and specializes in the instant.
- Then the things that stay still
- disappear from the eye.
- If one loves without pain
- one loves the changing present.
