Presence
after Tamyka Bell
Published in
1 min readJan 2, 2017
Polarized in time, fretting the ticks. But I then
remember the clock’s illusory nature — how I
envelop myself in what was,
seed tomorrow with today’s care, experience complete
evanescence of mind because there
never is enough time to feel my weight. Now I
choose surrender because I’ve had
enough carrying. Letting go, I hold everything.
This acrostic golden shovel is part of Keep Digging Deeper: a tributary web on Chalkboard. I worked from a line in this poem: