“The ontology of THISNESS, of ontological attention and address, has the character of metaphor: its object is, and is not, everything.” Jan Zwicky, Wisdom and Metaphor, #55 LH
Heading home ahead
of the nor’easter— the ocean
up to its old tricks.
I lean into the
wind; the swans face into it,
grunting. Such Stoics.
I left the pub as
the old timers got going,
clouding the windows.
Saturation, drop-
lets: what the ocean lacks in
thisness keeps showing.
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