The Hermit: 75

75.

Even with geographic proximity, there may exist temporal

systems such that two people cannot meet one another or will

never meet again.

Dream last night includes swimming. Something about a thick

river, keep riding boats on it, travel from station to station,

temporary home to home. It is Berlin or a group of islands

called "Connecticut." I am alone or have a child or am with

my brother. It is sunset, when one seeks something.

It is possible we somehow die for a time, a year, a month, a day,

without realizing this, then awake to find ourselves, which is to

say "someone," present again, attentive, expectant, apologetic

even?