Craig Van Riper


from Making the Path While You Walk

 

LEARNING


Something to get you started,

A drowning man,

The soft rustling of bamboo

By the river.  Six ducks.

You've forgotten how to swim

& so stay on the edge

Of the continent

Thinking in hindsight

Of your mistakes.  If only

You could do it all again,

You'd do it all differently,

Different mistakes, the same

Six ducks.

 

Copyright © 1993 by Craig Van Riper


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