Wednesday, December 15, 2010

The Near and the Far











Strength of muscle and joint,

every inch the indigen,

shoveling snow, hauling wood,

efficiency of the human frame

occupied with the simplest

of tasks, with necessity,

with fire with food

with space for the mind to travel

as we work in one place,

walking our paths,

some would say absentmindedly,

but far from it, reveling

in the continuance of possibility.