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Dave's avatar

This finally helped me put my finger on an element I love about reading your work: It's a beautifully-crafted reminder to never stop examining the significance in insignificance (and vice versa, lol). Your perspective (and its prompting to consider my own) has long been cherished.

Miss you, my friend.

Joe's avatar

Thank you, brilliant friend! I hope we catch up soon.

Meditations On Permafrost's avatar

I’m not sure if this is a riddle to be solved, but I loved sitting with it. It encapsulates the temporal but infinite nature of experience by stacking images against their wider context and against the vastness of nature and time. Fleeting as they are, they mean something. A very wonderful feeling to walk away from a poem thinking (even if misinterpreted). Thanks.

Joe's avatar

Thank you for this thoughtful reading! To my mind, the riddle is: who’s asking? When I look for the witness in me, I find only this constant fleeting presence. Who, then, wants to know?

Meditations On Permafrost's avatar

Thank you for unlocking it a bit more. A paradox to meditate on. If one does not know who is asking or who one is, from one moment to the next, then what is the riddle?

Joe's avatar

In one does not ask, there is no riddle. And yet, who can help asking?

Gregory Blair's avatar

This is immensely evocative! Like something you can almost taste...almost touch...but not quite. A nostalgia for things you can't quite name. Marvelous!

Ray Sweatman's avatar

A little gem.

Holly's avatar

This line is a masterpiece I am going to think of it all day

while deep in a purple sea

the white unblinking shark

Joe's avatar

Thank you, Olly von!