photo credits: Global Racing Adventures
Using a photo as a prompt, I begin with description and end with ontology. Maybe this is why I love travel: Each place echoes an understanding of what it is to be human. The place pictured is Ireland.
Ireland
The trail -
Shifting left, then right -
Snaking to the cliff’s edge;
A line of people -
Looking outward -
Taking in the horizon.
The ocean -
Trembling beneath
forces unseen.
Arrows in the sky
pointing toward
what’s just beyond sight.
Earth striving
to reach the place
where sea and sky unite,
Yet stubbornly -
Weighted -
Too heavy for air;
Too solid for all
the drops
surrounding it;
Encompassing
the conundrum
as old as time -
Our beings: Earth
And sea
And sky
Pointing -
Always pointing -
Where sea and sky
Meet,
But our earth
Can never - reach.
(4.5.23)
