Saturday 11 February 2012

Poem: Revisiting Holy Island

Travel is temporal over physical:

Both move in quantum directions
And bear no repetition,

And so returning is as open as
Forwarding and thus
I walk back to be here once again
Before.

It is still here.  Today was there then.

You can’t step in the same river twice,
But of course every day people do.

A river is a place as well as a flow;
All times are this place at this time;
I was here today and I will be then:

Various boys and men gather
Around this square
With various varying friends,
And are
Separate in their very sameness:

Different veins and different brains
And different strains of self.

Self is a side effect of
These physical shapes placed
Temporarily on a temporal plane
In a place
That is a square
That is a flow.

New cells are born but remember.
Revisiting is both
Physical and temporal.

14 September 2002

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