Musing

today’s Musing written and published from south Calgary, near Fish Creek Park

3C/37F, brilliant sunshine, calm, no one else out walking – Gusta uncharacteristically calm, snow cover shrinking away

PB and I hosted a birthday party yesterday – dogs, cats, children, hot dogs and burgers – group dynamics of her family tumble in my head; they’ve welcomed me – not in, but to the edge, mingling, not merged

communities grow near where the water flows; it would seem ridiculous to sit in a flat empty place ‘thinking the river into flowing to us’, though some scientist probably explored the notion; ideas can flow better than water because there are no rules or natural laws governing thought

edge moves, shore stays behind – I wonder if I am flowing or staying behind; spot in time, these edges touch as sleep/wake tension hovers - feelings flow as imagination leaks from awake-ness to daydream; in that second when consciousness takes me to the other side, thinking – then dozing, thoughts ease into dream language and back again, conscious slips, arms relax; muscles limp, let go

early morn at the edge of a moment, hovering over waiting for something to happen – sitting in the dark as if watching an abscissa on a full water glass; each drop added makes the heart beat, anticipation of flow that follows - drifting in … drifting out… then back again

that moment when one more thought – so precious – when one more thought is the margin between sleep-drift and conscious flow; I often wonder, if Archimedes had fallen asleep in the tub, would he have developed his theories on displacement?

at the edge, near the flow – on the edge of thought, the abscissa of reason, the place where roll is just a hair away from roll-over, where sleep and sleepy touch fingertips, I move from comfort in reality to imaginary worlds where comfort, or not, is not certain, a place where my mind walks without a body, my conscious self and limp arms left behind

Mark Kolke
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