Ready/Edge/Circle

READY

before you rode
intention was then
before it was an avenue
I have always intended, no matter what

EDGE

We are allowed again the glare

Of the sand, the druid hills,

The grasses brushing the legs, though
For I passed o’er the self-same walk

To walk abroad is, not with eyes,

But thoughts, the fields to see and prize;

Image by arimoore via Flickr

CIRCLE

to think what it looked like
at that moment,

I will have been walking away:

no matter what direction I intended,

Just to have felt it once would have been enough.
How can you still go about so calmly?

--A mashup of walking poems by Nikki Giovanni, Thomas Traherne, Brenda Hillman, Sir John Suckling, Joyce Sutphen, and Charles Reznikoff