Air spanned, passage waited, the balance rode,
Nothing prevailed, whatever was in store,
Witnessed itself, already taking place
In a time marked by assent and by hiatus.
— Seamus Heaney
Two chairs cushion possibility. Any horizon mirrors a dreaming beyond utility. Sit, unfolding. Witness, holding discrete revelation, a quiet recognition. The moment glimmers. Yielding smiling stars who delight in constellating the stories you wish seek to say tell. Sit, listen. Absence of words said. Sighing, instead.
FURTHER
— TWO CHAIRS 1 posted July 1 2022. Click link or menu to 2022 July.
NOTES
— Seamus Heaney (1939-2013, Irish) from the poem Squarings in Seeing Things (1991)
— Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008, Palestinian) from In the Presence of Absence (2006), trans from the Arabic by Sinan Antoon (2011)
Be me so I can be you! Rise up so I can carry you! Come near so I can know you! Go far away so I can know you!
— Mahmoud Darwish
