HARBOR

To know a place
Is to set aside:
An Intellect
That speaks of History

Geology
Sociology
The Built
And the Botanical;

An eye that inveigles
Thoughts of Beauty
Or of Dross
Of line and mass.

It is to Delve
Deeply into the Spirit
That is the There
There

So that a place
Is understood as ethereal
Neither of surfaces
Nor of the Abyssal;

Not of past Lives
Not of Old things and New
Nor the Lives of the Living
But the Anima of it All.

So that a place
Speaks not of Itself:
It is mute
And Tenebrous

A Fragment
Of Eternity
Harboring our
Fragile Temporality.