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It Doesn’t Happen, But It Does

Move carefully between
the hard and soft, my love.
If you touch a stone
it may shiver,
and fall in love with you.
You never know
how love begins,
but it does.
Insensates touch
falling into each other.

Tomorrow a great wave rises,
rogue off Africa.
From the calmness of the sea,
with no intent
sinks a ship.
No one knows why,
but it does.

Is it emptiness finding emptiness?
Intent, roused from sleep?
Love at first sight, the sightless?
With everything and anything.
With us.
With stones.
A giant wave.
A stone that shivers.
Why not?
It doesn’t happen,
but it does.

Note: The Draupner wave, a single giant wave, measured on Year’s Day, 1995, confirmed the existence of freak waves, previously considered near-mythical.

Published inIndex of all Poems