
out ahead there
arrayed in the time that stretches before us
I glimpsed them late last night… suggestions of shapes
I couldn’t quite make them out
perhaps it was the drink, bubbling up and over
and into my head, that obscured them,
perhaps it was the dust, unsettled from the stirrings
of many feet, through many days, suddenly dancing
today, aha, waking up in a new day
as the calendar suggests, and
by virtue of the "new" I find the parallax view
a shift in the position of the observer
Aha! through change seeing
clearer, nearer, however relative and
merely apparent in their positions
the objects ahead, whatever they are
before we make them
before we make them out

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