Picking Up Pebbles

Picking Up Pebbles By Raymond FedermanLink

To write, to write ones lifeLinkis to take a road that leads to nowhere

Linkand yet parallels the totality of ones existence

LinkTo write ones lifeLink

Linkis to evoke a silhouette

Linkthat of the writer rushing through his past

LinkOne cannot tell where he is going

Linkas he detours diverges deviates

Linkbut that is why we want to follow him

LinkAlong the way like a lost traveler

Linkhe picks up pebbles from the ground

Linkand stuffs them in his pockets

LinkAs he gropes backward he loses himself

Linkbut we are willing to be disoriented with him

Linkwilling to be lulled by his vain repetitions

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Stranded in time with himLinkwe lose ourselves in space with him

Linkand yet everything holds in place underneath

Linkas if pulled by a magnet

LinkAll that was absent

Linkforgotten from his life

Linkis now suddenly present again

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