LOOSE CHANGE

December 28, 2018 / John Grimmett

How would you like to be remembered?
For the longest time,
it was kindness for me,
but now I know
I would like to be thought of with truth
which is not always easy:
it is always complicated
because it is certain,
but only if we choose to see it
in our daily walk in the woods
or on sidewalks to nowhere.

I would like to think I am honest,
a fish swimming in a sea of sharks,
but I tire of certainty,
of why we shy from what is the bullseye —
especially in days when the leaves seem to drift —
two seconds,
three seconds —
landing slowly on the nose of my dog
(a perfect animal)
who sniffs and sniffs
and keeps sniffing the air
for more.

That’s what truth is:
a search;
a bright, bracing remembrance
of air and light.

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