Saturday, February 14, 2015

Personal

Hoarfrost on pond ice. Expand with a clock.

  

To see the self as it is, a phenomenon in space,

whatever i think i am, an object, a thing,

one more thing that throws a shadow,

and has extension, dimension, limitation,

not a shadow of something else, but is itself only...

You understand what i mean, you others,

or understand at least how shocking the obvious can be

if you're not ready for it.









—Extraction from a poem by Vijay Seshadri