Sunlight captures and conditions the color of the air a certain way sometimes
and a moment I recognize having sensed in my childhood comes forward to meet this one, all the same moment, timeless
and future retrospect is with me too,
it is a through line of my life
nameless, quiet.
I am not ahead of myself,
I am not catching up
I am not waiting
It is all one moment:
that yesterday
this now
daydreamed future
when it happens
just like this—
naturally, reliably
present
familiar, like a place,
comforting, like a friend—
I smoothen like the sunlight
as it sets shadow on a building, or flower, or hillside, or bench.
Always there comes the point
where my attention is drawn away
dissipating to distraction
until another stay.
Jeanosullivan 08/26/2024