And so I will let these moments
halt and accumulate
imprecisely and without merit
from one distance to the next
with no thought of what came before
or what followed as eventually
there comes a point in the distance
it is not here yet
when these moments coalesce
into indiscrete undifferences
and will see as it were
the motion that brings forth
as water from a great untamed sea
what singes action into movement
at the pivot of what was will be what
whole towns float and dissipate
in the sway and mist of unseen
separate unknown muddy photographs
gathered into a basket
never to be filled unclaimed
for what else is there to do
but to live as if in wait
for the time that will be
and by definition remains unknown
still known as we are known
when distinctions leave nothing
to the imagination
yet they are not there
and never were but for a brief
distracting interlude
to the depths of suffering
such an insignificant sliver
delivers a different deliverance
impossibly
Joshua Keiter 