Chance and Necessity
(For B.D.L.)
From the liquidity of accidents,
the undefinable rises to events
that surge and crest in a
necessary end
in definition, where they begin
again.
The waves reform and roll back to
the sea
to lose themselves in that green
mystery
in which the forms perform a
constant dance
of movements of necessity and
chance.
The surface stretches away from
where I stand
and curves around to another end
of land
where, by rule of chance, you
might now be,
or by law of hidden necessity.
The figures that dance across the
water’s face
before us rise up from an unseen
place
beneath the separations, beyond
our sight
and leap for just a moment in the
light.
I think they are the same figures,
both here
and there, and that they appear
and disappear
to you and me and join us in an
instant
that waves away the thoughts of
near and distant.
Distinct mythologies dissolve in
sea,
as do the spaces between you and
me,
so that the chances dividing us
are only
undulations of necessity.
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