Tuesday, June 29, 2021

OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR

The truth 
about distance 

may never be 
determined,

but over the course 
of a lifetime, we 
have learned 

that now 
is so much 
more demanding 

than belief 
in the future 
ever was—

how 
our movements tended 
to leave a smudge 

on the juxtaposition
of objects 
we loved—

that we did not know 
until we knew

that here 
was the heaven 
we'd always wanted:

the open sky, 
the cadenced plain, 
the words 

(which were 
never quite part 

of ourselves)
all dissolving,

and all 
of the history 
we’d pursued 

until now
in the frame
of the rearview.