Where I Do Not Walk

I don't know if I stepped back. Or if it's the ground, once again, that changed beneath me. Here, nothing distinguishes a step from a thought. Nothing anchors. Nothing strikes. The marsh erases all friction, all lines of rupture. There is no opposition between what I decide and what happens to me—only a slow gliding, a troubled coincidence between my breath and the world.

This place is not meant to be crossed. It is meant to recognize what insists on remaining.

I no longer know if I'm advancing or being carried. But I feel, still, that there are areas I don't dare set down.

Not because of danger. Not even because of doubt.

But because those places… do not ask.

They wait.

Here, everything that doesn't speak… remembers.