We are not there
The Country is not there
Others are not there
Love is not there
The repeat retreat into the present
is fixed in the distances we already know
only there could be there
only there will be there
the people, here
structures, here
ideas, here
are still here
have to be here
as here-not-there
and yet perhaps
Present Indicative
of a having-to-be that is
still
something there-not-here
way in which
these things in our way on the way
have to be –
if they have to be –
one-way way-making:making-way way-makers
if a way at all
to away
awaiting
by something like weighing into
There
Not destinations
at least no more than the present could have been destined in the first place
all at once guided and blinded by a
present which, in second place,
is some-way let get in the way
of being-on-its-way
that is, Being, on its way
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