nor the applauding wind,
shall let you know
you have arrived,
not the sea that celebrates
only departures,
nor the mountains,
nor the dying cities.
Nothing will tell you
where you are.
Each moment is a place
you’ve never been.
You can walk believing
you cast
a light around you.
But how will you know?
The present is always dark.
Its maps are black,
rising from nothing,
describing,
in their slow ascent
into themselves,
their own voyage,
its emptiness,
the bleak,
temperate necessity of its completion.
As they rise into being
they are like breath.
And if they are studied at all it is only to find,
too late,
what you thought were
concerns of yours do not exist.
Your house is not marked on any of them,
nor are your friends,
waiting for you to appear,
nor are your enemies, listing your faults.
Only you are there,
saying hello to what you will be,
and the black grass is holding
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