‘Now’

Solid shafts of light
moving through their element;
each movement
shimmers their silver
in a gleaming with the gleaming –
a flash that is seen and gone!

A fish is no more than ‘is’;
the ‘nowness’ is total.
Swimming through ‘now’.
‘now’ takes shape around its shape,
yet that shape leaves no trace
of having been.

I want to swim free
in the shaping of my own ‘now’!
I must learn to know 
that I need leave no traces.
For all that I am
is what am ‘now’.

(1989)