Caveat: the ponderous deflations of distance

The Curtains in the House of the Metaphysician

It comes about that the drifting of these curtains
Is full of long motions, as the ponderous
Deflations of distance; or as clouds
Inseparable from their afternoons;
Or the changing of light, the dropping
Of the silence, wide sleep and solitude
Of night, in which all motion
Is beyond us, as the firmament,
Up-rising and down-falling, bares
The last largeness, bold to see.
– Wallace Stevens (American poet, 1879-1955)

[daily log: walking, 7.5km]

Caveat: Poem #652

dreams
suspend
waking life's
uncertainties
replacing those with
a different set of doubts
which well up like floodwaters
murky, dark and full of bodies
to inundate the mind's furniture

[daily log: walking, 2km]

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