.....Here and There
.....--Juan Felipe Herrera

.....I sit and meditate—my dog licks her paws
.....on the red-brown sofa
.....so many things somehow
.....it all is reduced to numbers letters figures
.....without faces or names only jagged lines
.....across the miles half-shadows
.....going into shadow-shadow then destruction.........the infinite light

.....here and there............cannot be overcome
.....it is the first drop of ink