Thursday, July 19, 2012

What Do You Have in That Headlock

What Do You Have in That Headlock

How do we know
what now is

if it’s always passing
through us

before we can get a good
grip on it.

8 comments:

Maureen said...

This poem captures what Gregory Orr has to say about the "Vanished Past", "Unknowable Next", and "Buried Self". Incredibly Zen.

Jack said...

We know...what it was?

allysonmwhipple said...

So very true

Banjo52 said...

One of them there tipping point poems. I'm drawn to this topic, but it also makes me crazy.

Kathleen said...

Laughing! And scrunching my head.

Susan Partlan said...

Well done! If you just wait a second though it's in the past and you can look back on it.

ALBERT B. CASUGA said...

My poem response to this thoughtful poem, Hannah, is in my blog:
http://ambitsgambit.blogspot.ca/2012/07/questiona-now-and-then.html

Anonymous said...

Correction to url:
http://ambitsgambit.blogspot.ca/2012/07/questions-now-and-then.html