This first appeared in 1988, in Aileron. At the time I was experimenting with movement and breath and line, and wrote quite a few of these meditations in this form, some more successful than others.
where breath begins
it ends consider
light its secret
structure the sense
of limit defined
if a hand
recalls what the
eye cannot which
is the source
of remembrance one
touches more deeply
or allows itself
to be touched
a difference only
in the approach
O at the Edges 
relaxing lines….
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Thanks very much.
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From 1988? As good then as it is today, love it!
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Some things age well. Thank you!
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Interesting interplay of senses. I’ve noticed you like to experiment with them – you might like this book, “The Eyes of the Skin” by Juhani Pallasmaa.
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Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll be sure to look it up.
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I like
“if the hand
recalls what the
eye cannot”….
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Muscle memory fascinates me. How can my hands know where to go when I can’t visualize the movements?
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Thank you for enjoying my Mysteries blog. There are indeed many strange things in the world that we should know about,
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Agreed!
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beautiful – the question, if to choose would one be with sight or touch – mutually exclusive – nature has devised touch without sight – the snail who is doing fine – but dared not create sight without touch – wonder why – or probably it has in another realm – the soiritual where angels see but cannot touch.
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That is a question I would prefer not to have to answer. It would be difficult.
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as disembodied souls there would be sight without touch but with feelings in the heart of being
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Wow. I’m only a year older than this poem LOL. I love your lack of punctuation or consideration for grammar in this piece. Really turns it into a natural stream of consciousness, while the breaks add all the structure it needs.
Beautiful flow, beautiful insight, beautiful work.
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Thank you. These days I use punctuation, but it seemed a good experiment back then.
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A successful experiment, by my estimation.
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ha! ha! I finally found me one of your post with only fewer comments so I could insert my two cents in this comment. All I can say is WOW! What perception and how beautifully expressed! Even so, you honor me with your awesome in https://inspirationalbythia.wordpress.com/ wonder what you find awesome about my posts? 🙂
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