Here, in the sun, looking straight forward over the green lawn onto the bacciferous frondescence The space between the building where psychopathology was taught and the building where our intelligence was tested – buildings made unsafe and marred and subjected to presence – Here, I just am; there is no absence As far as my eyes can see, the “where” is here and the “when” is now and I am alone, listening in to today
A bee flies by and draws my eye to the peripheral timescape Inside the dark window to the left we sit in silence and wait for a pre-school class to walk past so we can continue a lesson that ended a year ago Behind me looms the auditorium where we partook in curiosity Beyond this greenth, you own the space But on this bench, there is no absence Here, I can breathe, lone as I am
A poem of finding spaces where the presence of one's past feels less vivid in its absence. 20 May 2020.