I’ve been here many hundreds of times, across the water from Vancouver’s Science World, yet apparently I have never been fully here, as in ‘YOU ARE HERE’. How did I miss this great sign?!
My teacher and friend Robert Creeley titled at least eight of his poems “Here.” It was the title of one of his very last published poems:
Up a hill and down again.
Around and in –
Out was what it was all about
but now it’s done.
At the end was the beginning,
just like it said or someone did.
Keep looking, keep looking,
keep looking.
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And here is one from “Hello,” a book from Creeley’s mid-career:
Since I can’t
kill anyone
I’d better
sit still.
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