It
was important, this idea
of
place, in the sightings:
the
cave, the road, the beach,
the
room. The sightings
alone
insufficient; they had
to
be sited and placed,
to
give them a name:
I
saw him by the cave
I
saw him on the road
I
saw him in the room
and
then I didn’t
I
saw him tending fire
on
the beach. Place
centers
the sightings,
giving
them a name
so
the sightings could
become
citings.
Painting: Thomas by Caravaggio, Schloss
Sanssouci, Potsdam
Sometimes I long for a sighting in one of my places.
ReplyDeleteSome nice assonance with those words "sightings" , "sited", "citings".
ReplyDeleteI like how the poem makes us consider what it means to give something a name to become what is otherwise inexplicable and not known.
So good! We read the road to Emmaus scripture this morning in church. . .
ReplyDeleteA woman once asked me, "Have you met Jesus?", and i told her, yes, i have.
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