to stand on a threshold to act before & now & after to suspend time as if to be galactic, as if to be universal to turtle up through green water to lizard along a lichened trunk to spider a thread out to a distant limb to raven a power line to raccoon a compost heap to sample dirt to touch, to pick up, to drop a handful of pebbles to trace a meadow, a forest, a ledge to angle toward sunshine toward rain, toward dark, toward starlight to find instead of self a commons