27) It's Any Move. It's That People Are Places

Things, not emotions.
Where you're falling off a corner
into the sea.
The many boats.

Or the picture of skin over your bones.
The better picture.

We drove to the coast and it took three days.
We stood in the water.

What unquestionable good news. Where the life
and the dream of the life
are one.

The square of the blanket and the blankets in squares.
Such an ordinary place.
The umbrellas in circles.

Which turns into a chase around town
for everyone.

There is this family
like wind through the umbrellas.
There are these palms
in the wind.

Here's a boat with water in it.

The water has a hole in it,
where we've been and where we've not been,
reenacting the scene
without sound.

---John Gallaher