Richard KRECH

Hand to Hand Combat

It comes down to things
you can hold in your hand.
Your head, for example
or the objects you encounter
in your daily routines.

"You should know that concept
like a room you know
with its furniture
& be comfortable with it" she said.

Making things personal
so we can pick them up
understand them and move our lives
in the direction of progress we want.

Using objects to get beyond them,
the constancy of change & movement
the only fixed star.

The horizon approaching.

12/18/01

In the moment

The moment
is the only place to live.
("At least for now" teased the Chorus.)

The time spent dreaming
about the future
or reminiscing about the past
is frozen in the moment
by yr inaction.

* * *

After the Industrial Revolution
has become "way-old history"
well past the Millennium
& when the world turned,
we will still move forward
one step at a time

into the present.

4/10/02