July 6, 2021

the neither space **

There is a place where the water meets the land and the sky
but when it’s raining, you could be anywhere, indistinguishable.
Imagine that, a body loosed of its home,
borderless, unbordered, in the neither space of earth and cloud, rock and wave.
What, then, would anchor you?
What would you reach for in your untetheredness?
That which contains you, or that which sets you free?
Friend, we are sometimes so lost, we feel unbearable.
And yet we reach for the thing we cannot see, always with equal parts hunger and hope,
with equal parts shore and rain.

** This week’s poem is a collaborative effort between me and my good friend Jean Reinhold. (We alternated lines.)