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.

–

And here is one from “Hello,” a book from Creeley’s mid-career:

Since I can’t

kill anyone

I’d better

sit still.

.