Before you arrived or left
Well I thought I could see you
right here and right now
but nothing is here in front of me
except the screen unless
I bring in the sky – blue-
and along with that how about some stretch of beach
and don’t forget the hot dog vendors
and the steel bands which i carefully removed
from a Donald Fagen song
and of course the women, not necessarily in white
and not women as in plural
but one woman and we’ll get back to her,
get back to you in just a second
because you see in these things
we must have something other than a sun
and a sky and water even though
those are three of the main elements
that make up the world: water, fire and earth
not be to be confused with the seventies band
of almost the same name even though
we mentioned music a few sentences before this one.
We have to bring in something peculiar
and sudden perhaps a skyscraper
or a freeway that leads to some place
beyond the horizon where you happen
to be and the direction in which you are
always heading out into the horizon
which is constantly fleeting
like the oasis in the middle of the road
that you see before you while you are driving
like the mirage that is in the imagination
the vision the desert vagabond sees before him
with the cooling tents, the camels,
the tambourine necklaces on the women
and the water the water which is as cool
as the blue sky and invisible like
the air above the earth which you breath out
and I inhale delicately –
thirsty for the air on the other side of the horizon
- Before you arrived or left - July 15, 2017
- Because These Things I Must do - July 13, 2017
A good write, William. nice imagery.