Headlong

Folly:

Not to struggle

with way-finding,

to see as clear

fog-boiled highways,

movement as speed,

to swear faith

in rangefinders’

autofocus automaticity

as requiem-worthy.

Headlong’s whole

not just of head

(alas, for how long

can whole be had?)

is itself a promise

renewed by benevolent star

or study,

to have had

you, visible

in some kind of scene,

some kind of seeing.

For Ann

14 Feb 2015